On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Mattias Bergvall wrote:
> Bob Hartung wrote:
>
>> but when I rebooted diald started dialing the modem immediately.
>> This is not the behavior that I think I should have - namely,
>> that diald will fire up the modem when I try to ping outside my
>> own 192.168.14.xxx home network and not at boot.
> I suspect you have a nameserver (named) configured.
> When starting named, it will contact it's peer for some (probably
> good) reason, thus it requests a route outside your 192.168.x.x
> network, which diald is kind enough to set up for it.
The standard.filter blocks named to named transfers. I would say it's
more likely that some other service is bringing up the link. xntpd is one
service that tries to resolve names when it starts up. It could be just
about anything. One could argue that diald is behaving correctly anyway.
Just reboot less often. :-)
Ed
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