On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Mike Jagdis wrote:
> You want to turn query logging on on name (killall -WINCH named) and
> watch the logs. Assuming, of courses, that you have a caching name
> server running and that the Windows machines are set up to use it.
> Once you know what queries are happening you can work to fix them or
> have your named return some "authoritative replies" (aka bald faced
> lies).
Is that possible with named without having to supply the complete domain?
I could be wrong, but I think not.
> If you are not running a caching name server you had better set one
> up (or start trying to get Microsoft to rewrite Windows so it works
> sensibly in the presence of demand dialled network links). You *could*
> use tcpdump to see what queries are going out and then add rules to
> diald to filter them by peeking at the data portion of packets. I
> don't know anyone that has done that though and anyone that has to ask
> probably wouldn't know where to start :-).
Eh, that's a good idea. I had some ideas of writing a filter program for
named that filters incoming queries. But if diald is able to do it, that
would be even better.
I guess I would have to edit /usr/lib/diald.defs for that?
Mark
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