On 09/04/2013 11:05 PM, George Adams wrote: > I am running BackupPC 3.3.0 on an Ubunut 12.04.3 system. My hosts (which are > all Windows PCs accessed via SMB) are set to dhcp=0, which has worked well > over several years/versions of BackupPC. According to the docs on "How > BackupPC Finds Hosts", these sequence is: > > - first gethostbyname() > - then nmblookup if the DNS lookup fails. > > However I am on Time Warner/Road Runner which apparently does DNS hijacking > in my area. So EVERY DNS lookup is successful. Any lookup of a non-existent > host returns the TWC search page address.
Do yourself a favor and switch your router to use the OpenDNS or Google DNS servers. You'll probably get better performance, as well as real NXDOMAIN responses. Regards, Raman Gupta ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, more! Discover the easy way to master current and previous Microsoft technologies and advance your career. Get an incredible 1,500+ hours of step-by-step tutorial videos with LearnDevNow. Subscribe today and save! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58041391&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
