On Thu, 18 May 2000, Neil Sedger wrote:
But I skipped that by writing a script to call chat and loop till it gives a non-zero RC.
pppd will do this, look at the holdoff, persist and demand options.
I tried both diald and PPP's 'demand' modes, but named seems to randomly decide to talk to its forwarding DNS quite often so the link's up and down all day.
In the options part of /etc/named.conf add dialup yes; eg: options { directory "/var/named"; recursion yes; dialup yes; };
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Not ideal though, I still need a way to initiate PPP from a Windoze client without telnetting in and running my script...
Set up ip_masq'ing/nat, demand dialing with pppd and start/stop pppd from a crontab, configure windows to use the nix box as a dns and gateway.
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