On 2 Aug 1998, Jake Colman wrote:
> The problem: If I have samba active, diald dials out every 8-10 mins.
> Without samba running, diald dials out only when I have real traffic.
> So, does anyone have the definitive answer as to how to prevent spurious
> diald activity when using Samba on a linux/win95 network when also using IP
> Masquerading (ipfwadm)?
I have two answers for you. The first, which is what I use, is to setup a
local DNS server (bind) that all local machines query. It provides
authoritative answers for all local machines, and forwards requests for
external names to my ISP's servers (1). With this setup, I have *never*
seen any spurious connections even though my wife has gotten into the
habit of leaving her machine (W95, mounting several shares from the samba
server) up 24x7.
The second answer I cannot vouch for from personal experience, but since
it's much easier to setup you might like to try it. I have seen many
differenet folks report that the same effect can be achieved without a
nameserver if you make sure that all your local machines are (correctly!)
present in the server's /etc/hosts file.
Luck!
(1) actually it also caches answers, but that probably would cause
problems if I didn't have a fixed IP address. Thanks to ARIN's ham-handed
attempts to conserve IP address space, that advantage will likely go away
one of these days unless I pay a little more for an account type that uses
eight times as many IP addresses. Somehow I suspect that ARIN's rules are
about as effective as you would expect from a committee. :-(
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