[plug] Ok, the next question...

[Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima]

On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, John Breen wrote:

> AFAIR, it's not a sendmail option, it's a diald option.  Diald can be
> forced to ignore DNS lookup requests, and only come online for
> certain protocols...

I found a ping to a known host in the ISP's network a good option.  Then you
create a desktop icon for the windows users that just ping the IP of that
host.  no DNS etc etc a few seconds later the link comes up and all is happy
:)

Having said that I've not had a nice time with diald :(

Yours Tony.

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