[suse-sles-e] SPAM: PPP connections.

From: Andrew (mr_aprice_at_yahoo.com.au)
Date: Fri Nov 03 2006 - 11:54:29 CET


Message-ID: <454B1FE5.5090405@yahoo.com.au>
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 21:54:29 +1100
From: Andrew <mr_aprice@yahoo.com.au>
Subject: [suse-sles-e] SPAM: PPP connections.

Thanks Heiko,

I will try that in the next week or two when I am visiting that
client site. That brings me to another issue...

When we used SCO we utilized PPP dial-up connections, but
we are having a great deal of trouble on SuSE...

We have it sort-of working on some of our clients but not all...

I would like to know if anyone has some documentation on
setting up a PPP dial-in connection and is willing to share.

We also need to be able to send faxes (not receive them) and,
again we have it sort-of working... We use hylafax for the faxing.

So, once we do a standard install of SuSE Ent. we then install
 - ghostscript
 - tiff
 - mgetty+sendfax
 - hylafax
 - not sure if we install ppp?

As this has been done in the past by someone else, I am left
to determine what is not right...

I did find something one day that said I needed to download and
install the ltmodem but could not find it anywhere.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Andrew.

Heiko Helmle wrote:
> Andrew wrote:
>>
>> Could my problem be something like the DNS is not set correctly
>> or Samba is getting involved?
>>
>
> Most times it's actually the DNS settings. The ssh daemon tries to
> find your name via reverse lookup. If it does not get an answer it
> waits until timeout (which is about 5-7 seconds).
>
> Not a fatal error, but annoying.
>
> If you really don't need DNS at all on that server, just turn it off
> in /etc/nsswitch.conf (remove the dns keywords). But I recommend you
> document that move prominently, or somebody may have a hard time in 6
> months trying to find out why DNS is not working :)
>
> Mit freundlichem Gruß/ with kind regards
>
> Heiko Helmle
> Software Development
>
> Horiba Europe Automation Division GmbH
> Zabergäustr. 3
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>



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