V. 1.9.17p1, FreeBSD. Why is it that SAMBA will do a DNS lookup for a WINS host (that is not in DNS), even though nmblookup returns the IP address straightaway? The problem I'm having is that my dialup connection is activated when DNS packets are detected. This seems to happen all the time, even though no traffic is destined for the Internet. SMB seems to work fine. Any pointers appreciated. ~~ Jared Hall ~~~~~~~ Tampa Bay Interactive ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1314 Tampa Rd, #120 ~~ jhall@tbi.net ~~~~ Palm Harbor, FL 34683 ~~ (813) 781-2209 ~~~ (http://www.tbi.net) Telecom Corner - http://www.tbi.net/~jhall
On Thu, 25 Sep 1997, Jared Hall wrote:> V. 1.9.17p1, FreeBSD. > > Why is it that SAMBA will do a DNS lookup for a WINS host (that is not > in DNS), even though nmblookup returns the IP address straightaway? > > The problem I'm having is that my dialup connection is activated when DNS > packets are detected. This seems to happen all the time, even though no > traffic is destined for the Internet. SMB seems to work fine.set [global] option "dns proxy" to no. this was the default functionality for 1.9.16 and 1.9.15, which is now under parameter control. the lookups are caused because you probably have a different DNS name from NetBIOS name for one of your hosts, or the machine being queried is not switched on. Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton (lkcl@switchboard.net) Web site under construction (http://mailhost.cb1.com/~lkcl) "Confront difficulties while they are still easy"
On Thu, 25 Sep 1997 12:09:14 +1000, you wrote:> >V. 1.9.17p1, FreeBSD. > >Why is it that SAMBA will do a DNS lookup for a WINS host (that is not >in DNS), even though nmblookup returns the IP address straightaway? > >The problem I'm having is that my dialup connection is activated when DNS >packets are detected. This seems to happen all the time, even though no >traffic is destined for the Internet. SMB seems to work fine. > >Any pointers appreciated. >Try setting up a hosts file (in the same windows subdirectory as hosts.sam on your PCs and usually /etc/hosts on your Unix system) that way any attempt to lookup the hostname of a machine will never get as far as DNS if it is in your hosts file.
On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Jared Hall wrote:> V. 1.9.17p1, FreeBSD. > > Why is it that SAMBA will do a DNS lookup for a WINS host (that is not > in DNS), even though nmblookup returns the IP address straightaway? > > The problem I'm having is that my dialup connection is activated when DNS > packets are detected. This seems to happen all the time, even though no > traffic is destined for the Internet. SMB seems to work fine. > > Any pointers appreciated.Have you a secondary name server? Offsite? Or is rwhod running? --- Peter Blake ppb@hft.co.uk ppb@baloo.tcp.co.uk