Hey,
In reference to the problem of dial-out when diald is started, I too
have the problem. However, my linux box is the only nameserver specified in
all the computers on the LAN.
Even if the other compters were set up to look at an outside network, diald
dials out right when it is started in my rc.local, even if all the other
computers on the net are turned off. I heard something about a bug in tcsh
that makes diald dial out upon login, and while tcsh is my shell of choice,
diald dials out before I get a chance to log in, so it cannot be that.
I can't think of any reason why any of my other processes would try to
access the outside world, which leads me to the conclusion that it has got
to be something in diald... Either a configuration problem (most likely) or
a bug (not likely ;) ) I am also running dialmon, maybe it has something to
do with that?
Any suggestions are welcome!
Thanks,
Kenneth P. Persing
-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Andrews [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 1998 1:54 AM
To: Santosh Narayanan
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Setting diald link disconnect time
Santosh Narayanan wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Can anyone tell me how I can set the options for diald to disconnect the
> line (eg: how many minutes to wait before disconnection) and also the
> redial delay time (where would I change the default of 30 seconds)?
>
'man diald' gives you a whole bunch of timeouts - just look for
"-timeout". I can't remember right now - I'm not near a linux box.
> Also I find that when diald starts up for the first time its just dialing
> out even when there's no outbound traffic. Is there any way I can stop
this?
>
I got rid of this problem last night - my linux PC is the default
gateway for a win95 PC which seems to want to ping (?) its first
configured DNS at startup. The DNS address I had was not on my LAN so
diald decided to connect. I reconfigured win95 to see the cache DNS on
the linux PC instead, and the problem went away.
> Thanks in advance,
> -- Santosh
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