RE: Bug#118475: woody - problems with dns
On Wed, 2001-11-07 at 08:41, Jan Arne Fagertun wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Steffen Evers [mailto:mldeb@forevers.de]
> >
> > After some more testing I have found out that this occures whenever
> > sending a mail, no matter whereto (localhost, MyMachineName or
> > somewhere else). My dial on demand is always invoked by DNS querying
> > for MyMachine. I will do some more reading. Hopefully I can
> > stop that by
> > changing my exim.conf file somehow. Maybe a new exim version has
> > introduced a default behavior that causes this.
>
> Sorry if I am misunderstanding; for some stupid reason I haven't
> followed this discussion.....
>
> I am experiencing similar problems - my Dial On Demand triggers often
> when some program wants to contact localhost. Among those is leafnode;
> I am running a local news-spool (leafnode), and whenever I post a new
> news message, or even if I access a newsgroup, the ISDN connection is
> started. Another is ssh....
>
> To me it seems like there is something wrong with the configuration of
> the "lo" interface - in fact it doesn't even appear in the "route"
> list.
hi, *
after installation of my woody, there was a similar (same ?) problem.
the loopback was loaded but got no ip address (no "iface lo inet
loopback"-entry in /etc/network/interfaces )and no /etc/hosts-entry.
I don't know, weather it caused lookups, because of being allways online
with dsl-flat.
by
frank
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