part of daily does a netstat to record whats going on and some addresses are
resolved, kicking off a packet to your nameserver and triggering a pppd
iin demand mode. (at leastthat is what happens here)

I simply ifconfig the ppp device down before i go to sleep. you get
some ns_forw errors on the console but that is cheaper than a wasted
15 minutes of isp time. i've been thinking of making a little tcl/tk program
to make this easier...

d

On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Paul Goyette wrote:

> Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 17:12:34 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Paul Goyette <paul@whooppee.com>
> To: rgfischer@mail.hac.com
> Cc: port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: PPP DOD Dials Modem in middle of the night.
> 
> Probably trying to contact a DNS nameserver...  Make sure that you have
> everything you could possibly want to resolve in your /etc/hosts file,
> and make sure that resolv.conf lists "lookup file bind" (putting "file"
> first)!
> 
> On Tue, 2 Jun 1998 rgfischer@mail.hac.com wrote:
> 
> >      
> >      I started using PPP Dial-on-Demand in the not too distant past.
> >      Now I've noticed that at around 3:00 am, my computer has been dialing 
> >      up my ISP and then staying connected until it times out 15 minutes 
> >      later.  I'm assuming that this is happening when the daemon processes 
> >      send their nightly reports to Root.
> >      
> >      Since they don't try to access any external sites (just sending mail 
> >      to itself),  How can I get this to stop short of turning off the modem 
> >      at night?
> >      
> >      Thanks,
> >      Roger
> > 
> 
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