russ wrote:
>
> Still trying to get diald working on redhat 5.1
>
> I have installed the 0.16.5a-1 rpm and the diald-config rpm of the
> same version number. Several packets show up in the queue under dctrl
> when I start diald and do a ping. The initial ping packet shows up
> first followed by several packets targeted at the name server. after
> about a minute pppd quits with message 2 and diald re-tries the
> connection.
>
> Some one had posted to this list a solution to this problem involving
> adding a line to /etc/hosts for the local machine. I am just coming
> over from OS/2 and could use some advise on this. I use dynamic ip
> with 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.2 as the IPs in diald.conf. My hosts file
> is:
> 127.0.0.1 localhost lucy2.localdomain.wisc.edu
> 10.0.0.2 lucy2 lucy2.localdomain.wisc.edu
>
> I also tried 10.0.0.1 on line 2 with the same results.
Put entries in your hosts table for both sides; I'd also suggest having
your /etc/ppp-down script reset your hostname to whatever you start
with, if you do change your hostname. Also, what does hostname return
before you start doing anything? Is that in the /etc/hosts file?
Ed
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