Another alternative is to 'ignore' the Netbios name lookup packets by editing
/usr/lib/diald/standard.filter - look for the netbios-ns comments/section
and modify the lines below it to 'ignore' and voila you don't have to mess
with any of the Win9x/NT boxes in your network. Also make sure the filter
is included in your diald.conf.
HTH
- Arun Khan
At 08:41 AM 12/16/98 +0000, Mike Sharp wrote:
>Brian,
>
>Joel Knight [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] posted this a while back. Think it
>might sort your problem.....
>
>Joel Knight [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]:
>Hello.
>
>I have multiple Win9x boxes that access the net through a linux gateway
>using ip_masq and diald. I also noticed the unrequested dialing out on the
>linux server. To me it appeared that whenever someone logged onto the
>network, diald would dial out. I finally found an article on some webboard
>that explain a solution for this. I don't have that article any more, but
>I do have the solution.
>
>If you goto Start / Run and type 'winipcfg' on the windows boxen and look
>for the box that says "NetBIOS uses DNS" (or something to that affect) it
>will most likely have a check mark in it. The article I had said that
>this causes windows to use DNS to do netbios name lookups. This seems
>to coincide with the reports of others on the list who say that they
>fixed the problem by setting up a name server for their local net (which
>I did not do).
>
>Now, copy the following lines to a file call dns-fix.reg:
>
>
>REGEDIT4
>
>[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\MSTCP]
>"EnableDNS"="0"
>
>
>Import dns-fix.reg into the registry by double clicking the file. Now run
>winipcfg again. The check mark should be gone. Reboot and see if windows
>will bring your ppp link up any more.
>
>Like I said, this solution fixed the problem for me. What I did was put a
>line into my autoexec.bat file that imports this registry file so that if
>I make any changes to Control Panel / Network, I don't have to remember to
>manually import it.
>Good luck! :-)
>
>On Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 04:08:10PM -0800, Bill Perpelitt wrote:
>> Thomas,
>>
>> I had a similar problem with some Win95 machines that had the
>> "client for Microsoft Networks" loaded. Apparently, the MS client
>> tries to do a DNS lookup every x minutes whether it's needed or
>> not. There's probably a way to filter this in the filter file, but I was
>> never able to do it completely. I finally removed the Netbios service
>> from my /etc/services file, which seemed to help. I swear the MS
>> client caught on to what I had done and still managed to get diald to
>> dial out, but without Netbios packets. I finally removed the MS client
>> from the offending machine, and voila, no more phantom dials.
>>
>> Obviously, not a complete solution, especially for those needing MS
>> peer functions or running Samba. But it worked for me.
>>
>> I'd be interested in hearing other solutions that allow the MS client
>> to be active.
>
>--
> Joel Knight [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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