[ale] Logging of dialout

Nick Lucent nlucent at mindspring.com
Fri May 7 17:22:41 EDT 1999


The man pages for pppd? A quick grep for dns came up empty. Ill check
/usr/doc as well.

Thanks again,
Nick
On Fri, 7 May 1999, Jim Kinney wrote:

> I would bet you are having a dns lookup problem. As the system checks to
> see what machines are online, dns lookup kicks the dialer. I can't
> remember the cure for this. Check the man pages carefully. I think that is
> where I found the solution.
> 
> James Kinney M.S.Physics		jkinney at teller.physics.emory.edu
> Educational Technology Specialist	404-727-4734
> Department of Physics Emory University	http://teller.physics.emory.edu
> 
> On Fri, 7 May 1999, Nick Lucent wrote:
> 
> > I have my proxy setup to auto dial using pppd, today I got an email from
> > mindspring saying that I had really high usage. Ive noticed that it seems
> > to just dial out on its own occasionally. I turned off the hub in order to
> > determine if it was one of the computers on the network, or the server,
> > with the hub turned off the server still dialed out a little while later.
> > Is there anyway that I can log what is causing pppd to dial out? Ive
> > checked cron etc. but didnt notice anything running that would cause it to
> > dial. Has anyone else seen this problem? Any easy fixes? 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Nick
> > 
> 






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