On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, John Dalbec wrote:
> I'm running diald 0.99-1 on RH 5.2 with a dynamic IP. When I send mail
> locally, some process (presumably sendmail) does a reverse lookup of the
> fake "local" address that diald assigns to the SLIP device. This was
> causing a dialout until I put this address into my /etc/hosts. Is there
> a better way to fix this (other than getting a static IP)?
Not really. If you don't know in advance what your IP address
should be you have to use *something* to number the interface
so you can route traffic through it. Unfortunately, once you
have an address on an interface all kinds of programs are
likely to start noticing it and trying to learn the associated
name :-(.
Mike
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