I've seen this too, recently. I'm able to do everything except
outgoing mail, without bringing up the link, just by having entries
for the initiating machine in /etc/hosts.
For outgoing mail, you either accept that the firewall system will
bring up the link (and your mail goes right away, which may be a good
thing), or you do all sorts of configuration things to sendmail, to
make it queue always. Then, you have cron bring up the link and send
the mail queue.
> Subject: Local Machines initiating diald
> I have a Linux server running Caldera OL v1.0, and of course diald
> with the latest patch - v5.
>
> When I connect, e.g. telnet, mail, from a client machine diald dials out
> and will not give me a login window until it connects. I am 99% sure
> this is DNS related.
>
> The messages in the /var/log/messages detail the filter has accepted
> rule 22, protocol 17.
>
> My hosts file has an entry for the client machines, e.g.
>
> 192.168.1.200 client200.local.com client
>
> However, on reading the FAQ, specifically the following
>
> "6.10 When I send mail to a local site diald brings the link up. Why?
>
> Sendmail is attempting to do a name lookup on your the local hostname,
> and for some reason it is not finding it in the /etc/hosts file. This is
> probably a case of a
> misconfigured domain name. Make sure that local hostnames do not contain
> the full domain name, but only the prefix. Also make sure that the IP
> address being used
> by diald for the local host has a defined entry in your /etc/hosts file.
> Configuration errors of this type can be hard to track down. If
> necessary you should run
> sendmail with full debugging on to see what names it is trying to look
> up."
>
> Would it solve my problem if I removed the FQDN from the hosts file?
>
> Unfortunately it is 8:12 am Monday morning and I can't test it until I
> get home tonight!
>
> But if anybody has seen this before and can offer advice, then I'd be
> more than grateful.
>
>
> tia
>
> Paul.
>
> ( i do intend to run named eventually)
>
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