yes I have dialup yes. my named.conf is actually quite simple as I only use it for dns forwarding therefore I don't actually need to set the heartbeat-interval. if I start named, let it dial, wait for the ppp time out to expire and leave the system for days without any traffic it doesn't dial. so it is working properly. the only thing that I can't uinderstand is why named makes ppp dial out when it is only suppoed to forward dns requests. and I have no other app that does dns requests.
I'm not 100% sure I understand you here. You seem to think that forwarding DNS requests should not cause DNS to trigger a dial. This would only be true if your forwarders did not require a dial to reach. I don't understand your concern with the fact that it dials on startup. Do you start and stop the DNS server a lot? If you really need it to stop, add suppress-initial-notify to yes. See if that helps.
Hope I've said something here that is helpful.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Moran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "DJ Boris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "freebsd-questions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2003 4:53 PM Subject: Re: how can I stop named to dial out at startup
DJ Boris wrote:
hi there,
I use named to only forward dns requests (if any). every time I start it (manually from the command line) it dials out. then the ppp times out
after
3 mins, connection gets dropped and everything geos back to normal. as
soon
as a dns request arrives ppp kicks in.. and so on and so on.
in named.conf I have forward only and have set forwarders. so everything
is
OK but just that initial dial out at start up is annoying me.
i have read named.conf manual and there is says that you can put "dialup yes" have done that but no luck and I think this option is more for
proper
dns and doesn't apply to dns forwarding
Did you put the "dialup yes" as a global option? If not, it might only
apply
to certain zones, and other zones will update as needed.
Also, did you set the "heartbeat-interval"? I don't know what the default
is,
but you'll probably want to set it pretty high.
Also, the system will _always_ dial out if it doesn't have the DNS
information
requested.
Just some thoughts.
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