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Visionfs and ppp

It's so nice to see that things never change. Some of the more obscure searches I have made that have finally succeeded have been almost as bad as using "phone line" instead of "ppp".

The "SSL" he refers to is probably Phone line called every 5 minutes by nsmsrv requesting nonexistent domain name. - yes, it still talks about "phone" rather than "ppp" or even the more generic "network link".

From: "Buddy Z" <diespammersdie-zed@wcs.ab.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc
Subject: Re: SCO 5.0.5 ppp to ISP
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 00:01:53 -0700
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Well, you will have to put rather bizarre entries into your /etc/hosts to
make it work right.
Actually, VisionFS version 1.0-1.2 has broken nsm* binaries.
You can download fixes from SCO ftp site.
There's also an article on this in SSL, try to look for "nsmsrv".
This article has not a singe "ppp" entry (believe me or not, they refer to a
"phone line"), that's why it took me a couple of months to find a solution
for this problem.  Finally, somebody in this group pointed me to lsof and
lsof pointed to nsmsrv.

God bless SCO support.

Buddy Z.

Evan Hunt <evanh@sco.COM> wrote in message
news:80am85$67v$1@hobbes.sco.com...
>
> Don't blame me, I voted for amontesd@my-deja.com.
> >Now the modem is continuosly dial-in to the ISP, but I may be is because
> >I have Vision running in that server, isn't?
>
> Yes, VisionFS can cause that.  It's most likely trying to do a DNS
> lookup on some system name configured in your current.prf file.  If you
> edit /etc/resolv.conf so that it says "hostresorder local bind", and
> put all relevant hostnames into /etc/hosts, that should obviate the
> need for VisionFS to do a DNS lookup, and might fix the problem.
>
> --
>                   Evan Hunt   -   evanh at sco dot com
>
> "The wages of sin are death.  But after taxes are taken out,
> it's just a sort of tired feeling."  - Paula Poundstone
>

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