On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Charles Shoemaker wrote:
> 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.
This is a different problem from that of the original poster, but the
ultimate solution is similar: run named on your server. To get named
working with diald you have to either have a recent 2.0.x kernel and place
the line
echo 5 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_dynaddr
in a startup script (probably rc.local), OR place a command (something
like)
named-restart
in your ip-down script, OR both.
Personally, I like the second solution, which ensures that the link comes
up on a name resolution request, which gives more time for the network to
come up. That is important if it takes a while to dial into your ISP.
Ed
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