Re: ping and ftp habg forever, if they bring up diald

[Jonathan Hutchins]

> Redhat 6.0 Using oing or ftp to bring up the diald link results in a
> process that hangs forever without completing. Even the ping never
> times out. You have to kill the process.

> Is this a feature? How can I work around it. Short of warping these
> commands in scripts that send SIGUSR1 to diald?


I didn't have any trouble with this, but I was using the ISP's nameservers -
try disabling your bind and see if it works then.  (I just use a hosts
file.)