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Re: Demand dialing when I don't demand



On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 08:54:36AM -0400, Jonathan Markevich wrote:
> I've set up a lightweight box as a gateway on my home network, and used 
> demand dialing.  It works, pretty much, but whenever I try to SSH to 
> that machine, it dials up to the Internet before it will allow me to 
> connect. It wants to dial whenever I connect to the IMAP on it or 
> anything else.
> 
> I have it set as the gateway and it dials whether I feed it the IP 
> address or use the hostname in my hosts file.
> 
> Any idea how to set it to not be so jumpy?

It's probably trying to resolve DNS or reverse DNS somewhere...try
running ethereal or tcpdump to catch it in the act.

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