Re: pppd doing name lookup during PAP???
Hi Chris:
You might try shutting off auth in /etc/ppp/peers/?????
Change it to noauth.
Peter
Chris Kaltwasser wrote:
> Hi all -
>
> Hopefully someone here in Debian-user land is familiar enough with pppd to
> give me some help with this. I'm trying to get a dialup PPP connection set
> up between computers running Debian 2.1 on two separate networks, and right
> now it seems to be dying because the debian box on the remote network (an
> office LAN, no name server or connection to the Internet) can't do a DNS
> query on the name "*.vote-smart.org". I thought I had things working
> properly before I took the machine to the other office, but it seems to go
> so far, then hang for about 80 seconds as it tries to resolve
> "*.vote-smart.org" and then just "*". After that it tries to do IPCP and
> eventually gives up. I've been reading through the pppd man and docs and I
> can't figure out why it would even need to do a name lookup, let alone on a
> host name with a wildcard (is that even valid in DNS???)
>
> My pap-secrets file contains *'s for the IP numbers in the 4th column,
> since I wasn't sure how exactly I needed to set those up -- could that be
> what's going wrong?
>
> Anyway, if anyone out there has any hints or advice, please let me know.
> Thanks!
>
> Chris
>
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