Re: nestcape is starting my connection at startup

[Petre Rodan]

Hi !

Phil Salkie wrote:
> 
> Hey, Peter,
> 
> >
> > Any ideea why does Netscape (4.72) starts a dns querry when it starts?
> 
> It may be looking for your news server, or may be looking for your machine.
> It makes sense to put your own machine's name in /etc/hosts, and you might
> have to put an entry for the NNTP server there as well.

It seems that ethereal is not able to read from ppp0 after it was
rerouted from a tap device ...

I've listened to the tap0 then and this is what I've got:

source          192.168.1.5 (my tap0 device)
destination     193.231.208.1 (my ISP's DNS)
protocol        DNS
info:           standard query A news.localdomain

> If tcpdump's too gobble-de-gookey for you, you can download "etherial", the
> world's coolest packet sniffer, from www.zing.org

;-) thanx

> Once you see what's causing the link-up, put the corresponding entry into
> /etc/hosts, and make sure /etc/host.conf has "order hosts, bind" in it.

my hosts:
127.0.0.1               localhost.localdomain localhost 
192.168.0.4             localhost.localdomain
192.168.0.4             news.localdomain

my host.conf
order hosts,bind
multi on

my resolv.conf
search localdomain
nameserver 127.0.0.1
nameserver 193.231.208.1

I also have 'dnsserver -s 193.231.208.1' from squid.

I have no news server  configured and if I try to delete it from
netscape it reapears.

All this, but netscape still pops up the connection. Please, what else
should I do?

I've attached etherial's output.

Thanks,
        Peter
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