[plug] Questions about a dialup server

[Kent Ian]

Michael Hunt wrote:

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>packages) I often come up with an error on the machine that says something
>along the lines of IPCACHE something or other. DNS lookup failed. As the
>machine is not always permanently connected to the web I can understand why
>this happened. (The box does act as a local DNS and this works perfectly
>fine). The same message appears in the squid.log file. On looking through
>the squid.conf file I found a reference to a DNS test that occurs on
>start-up that can be disabled using a -D parameter. I tried this in various

You need to add -D to the squid startup.
Look at the startup script (probably /etc/rc.d/init.d/squid) and work ou where 
the parameters are read from and add the -D to disable DNS test at startup.

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>2. I want to be able to get the machine to dial into my ISP on demand. I
>heard that diald can do this but there is some problems with it on 2.0
>kernels (or at least someone told me they had that problem). Does anyone
>know of another utility that can be used to do this ? I don't mind if the

Seems to work fine on several of the RH 2.0.3x kernels I have used.

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Ian Kent