On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 07:53:16PM -0500, Russ Herrold wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Paul M Foster wrote:
>
> > Anyone have any enlightening info?
>
> As a BOFH, this is a safe rule to live by: -- 80% of the time,
> DNS is not doing what you expect.
>
> Another gem: tcpdump is your friend -- and it can monitor
> ppp0
>
> As I recall ppp can set debugging up to kdebug 7, and debug 7
> -- which show everything but the color of your eyebrows, into
> /var/log/messages
>
Good, but that doesn't answer the question of why _telnet_ is making
pppd dial out rather than simply responding itself. (BTW, after pppd
dials out, telnet responds with a prompt. Go figure.)
Paul
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