On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Bill Perpelitt wrote:
> Thomas,
>
> I had a similar problem with some Win95 machines that had the
> "client for Microsoft Networks" loaded. Apparently, the MS client
> tries to do a DNS lookup every x minutes whether it's needed or
> not. There's probably a way to filter this in the filter file, but I was
> never able to do it completely. I finally removed the Netbios service
> from my /etc/services file, which seemed to help. I swear the MS
> client caught on to what I had done and still managed to get diald to
> dial out, but without Netbios packets. I finally removed the MS client
> from the offending machine, and voila, no more phantom dials.
>
> Obviously, not a complete solution, especially for those needing MS
> peer functions or running Samba. But it worked for me.
>
> I'd be interested in hearing other solutions that allow the MS client
> to be active.
I took care of the problem by running samba. I haven't gotten samba to
let anyone share anything from my linux box (its all set up to, it just
asks for a password fro EVERYTHING (including $IPC), and even though I'm
logged inot win98 with my correct username, it still says incorrect
passwd). Simply by having samba running, it seems to "capture" or
"filter" the dns lookups. On my network, win98 kept trying to lookup
[EMAIL PROTECTED] It no longer does this, probily due to responces
from samba in SMB protocall.
> Bill
>
> > Ok I know it's not diald causing the problem (phoning up my ISP when it
> > would appear to have no reason to) but I want to trace the origin of the
> > problem. I'm pretty sure the NT4 or Win95 machines are to blame because
> > when they're switched off, there has never been a "phantom" call.
> >
> > My problem is this: Can I log every single request to which diald is
> > responding ? I know the log file will be huge, but I get these calls
> > even when there's nothing much going on!
> >
> > If I can identify the offending request, maybe I can tell diald to
> > ignore it in future (?) Or maybe fix it at source.
> >
> > PS I have 'named' (as a DNS cache mainly) on the linux IP_MASQ machine,
> > and it's the default gateway etc.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Thomas
> >
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