Re: Local mail causes dialout? 0.99-1/RH5.2

[Carlos Alberto de Almeida Jr]

Em dom, 10 out 1999, Mike Jagdis escreveu:
> 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 :-(.
> 

I'm running the same configuration and having the same problem John Dalbec
does. When I read this e-mail I put both the local and remote adresses of the
SLIP device into my /etc/hosts. But diald is still dialing out when I send
local mail. Is there anything else I can do?


Carlos


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