On Friday 07 December 2001 08:25 pm, Ian wrote:
> What you need to do is see what Internet bound traffic is being
> generated by the Linux box that's causing the dial out.
>
> #man tcpdump
> or
> #man ethereal
>
> Is the /etc/resolv.conf set to look for DNS outside your local
> network? If it is and you so much as sneeze in the general direction
> of a host that isn't BOTH _local to your network_ AND _locally listed
> in your /etc/hosts file_ it will query the external DNS servers in
> resolv.conf causing the dial out.
>
> Perhaps?
>
> If this doesn't do it, you'll have to have tcpdump or ethereal come
> up as soon as your eth0 is configured (somewhere in your rc scripts
> or rc#.d directories) and capture the packet log to a file to see
> what's leaving the linux host bound for where.
>
> HTH
This sounds like it might do the trick. I'll try it tomorrow (when I'm
not so tired) and let you know what I found.
Thanks,
Randy Donohoe
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