Mehmet,
I don't use Outlook, and Eudora is shutdown, plus Eudora is collecting mail
from the linux box, which collects it from the ISP.
I get this problem even with Netscape & Eudora shut down, just W95 alone.
It appears to be W95 looking up the ISP DNS, which is configured
as I'm not using a local DNS, but why would W95 keep issuing DNS requests
when its not doing anything?.
Brian
At 12:10 PM 10/02/2000 +1100, Mehmet Yousouf wrote:
>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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