[ale] Logging of dialout

[Jim Kinney]

I would bet you are having a dns lookup problem. As the system checks to
see what machines are online, dns lookup kicks the dialer. I can't
remember the cure for this. Check the man pages carefully. I think that is
where I found the solution.

James Kinney M.S.Physics		jkinney at teller.physics.emory.edu
Educational Technology Specialist	404-727-4734
Department of Physics Emory University	http://teller.physics.emory.edu

On Fri, 7 May 1999, Nick Lucent wrote:

> I have my proxy setup to auto dial using pppd, today I got an email from
> mindspring saying that I had really high usage. Ive noticed that it seems
> to just dial out on its own occasionally. I turned off the hub in order to
> determine if it was one of the computers on the network, or the server,
> with the hub turned off the server still dialed out a little while later.
> Is there anyway that I can log what is causing pppd to dial out? Ive
> checked cron etc. but didnt notice anything running that would cause it to
> dial. Has anyone else seen this problem? Any easy fixes? 
> 
> Thanks,
> Nick
>