Hi,
What are the DNS requests for? It could be outlook checking for mail every
10 minutes. I just went through a similar problem with a friends' box..
turned out to be a trojan called park.exe - Back Orifice plugin (it kept
on doing lookups of irc channels...
Regards, Mehmet
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Brian Martin wrote:
> I have linux RH6.0 with IP masq & dialondemand working.
> >From a WFW3.11 workstation all is fine & the linux ppp link drops after
> specified period of inactivity, & reconnects as needed.
> When I add a W95 workstation net access works fine etc, but linux never
> drops the ppp link, because tcpdump -i ppp0 shows that the W95 box
> seems to keep on sending DNS requests about every 10 mins or so,
> even when its doing nothing, browser shutdown, & screensaver on.
>
> I think someone had this same problem & there was a W95 registry fix
> to stop these repeated DNS requests preventing the idle timeout to work.
> But I can't find the fix in SLUG mail archives or on search engines.
>
> Does anyone recall either the W95 registry fix,
> or perhaps a way to tell ppp's activity monitoring to ignore these packets,
> or is this why caching name servers are recommended ?
>
> TIA
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