Hey, Peter, > > Any ideea why does Netscape (4.72) starts a dns querry when it starts? It may be looking for your news server, or may be looking for your machine. It makes sense to put your own machine's name in /etc/hosts, and you might have to put an entry for the NNTP server there as well. You can see what the DNS query is by starting up "tcpdump -i ppp0" in an xterm, having first brought the link up with a ping or ppp-on or xdialdctl or whatever you use. tcpdump will show you what traffic is going out over ppp, I'll bet it's a reverse DNS query. If tcpdump's too gobble-de-gookey for you, you can download "etherial", the world's coolest packet sniffer, from www.zing.org Once you see what's causing the link-up, put the corresponding entry into /etc/hosts, and make sure /etc/host.conf has "order hosts, bind" in it. Good luck! Phil Salkie Howman Controls [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-diald" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
