Hi Chris: You might try shutting off auth in /etc/ppp/peers/????? Change it to noauth.
Peter Chris Kaltwasser wrote: > Hi all - > > Hopefully someone here in Debian-user land is familiar enough with pppd to > give me some help with this. I'm trying to get a dialup PPP connection set > up between computers running Debian 2.1 on two separate networks, and right > now it seems to be dying because the debian box on the remote network (an > office LAN, no name server or connection to the Internet) can't do a DNS > query on the name "*.vote-smart.org". I thought I had things working > properly before I took the machine to the other office, but it seems to go > so far, then hang for about 80 seconds as it tries to resolve > "*.vote-smart.org" and then just "*". After that it tries to do IPCP and > eventually gives up. I've been reading through the pppd man and docs and I > can't figure out why it would even need to do a name lookup, let alone on a > host name with a wildcard (is that even valid in DNS???) > > My pap-secrets file contains *'s for the IP numbers in the 4th column, > since I wasn't sure how exactly I needed to set those up -- could that be > what's going wrong? > > Anyway, if anyone out there has any hints or advice, please let me know. > Thanks! > > Chris > > ________________________________________________________ > Chris Kaltwasser [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Director of Online Services Project Vote Smart > Office: (541) 737-0747 FAX: (541) 737-8108 > > 1-888-VOTE SMART (1-888-868-3762) > http://www.Vote-Smart.org > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
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