I don't remember whether or not WIN95 has a local hosts file. I can't find
any place to configure it on NT.
Assuming it doesn't, in order to have the name resolved, you have to have a
name server on YOUR LAN and the WIN95 or NT systems have to point to it as
the primary nameserver. That involves configuring and running "named"
somewhere (either on one of the NT machines, or on LINUX).
Then you set up YOUR nameserver to forward unresolved name lookups to your
ISP. It took me quite a few tries to get it right on SCO UNIX, and MORE
trouble to get it working right on LINUX (which doesn't like blank lines in
the config files).
It's looking for the name "WORKGROUP" because you used the default workgroup
name when you installed WIN95.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Sprague <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Peter N. M. Hansteen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, May 14, 1998 5:20 PM
Subject: Re: diald keeps dialing out
>Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote:
>>
>> At 23:17 12.05.98 -0400, "Ken Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >WIN95 and NT systems do a DNS lookup for the workgroup name
periodically.
>>
>> Correct.
>>
>> >Otherwise, the only solution is to use the diald filters to prevent
dialing
>> >for DNS lookups (Port 53, I think)
>>
>> I think the one you want to block is # 137 (netbios), which originates
the
>> dns request. (that's what solved it here, anyway).
>Looking through the standard.filters file it looks like these should be
>blocked but I'll look at it again. I'm using tcpdump on sl0 and it looks
>like it's doing a name lookup for WORKGROUP, can't I just put this
>somewhere in hosts or something so it won't have to do a name lookup?
>
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