Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote:
>
> At 23:17 12.05.98 -0400, "Ken Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >WIN95 and NT systems do a DNS lookup for the workgroup name periodically.
>
> Correct.
>
> >Otherwise, the only solution is to use the diald filters to prevent dialing
> >for DNS lookups (Port 53, I think)
>
> I think the one you want to block is # 137 (netbios), which originates the
> dns request. (that's what solved it here, anyway).
Looking through the standard.filters file it looks like these should be
blocked but I'll look at it again. I'm using tcpdump on sl0 and it looks
like it's doing a name lookup for WORKGROUP, can't I just put this
somewhere in hosts or something so it won't have to do a name lookup?
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