On 17-Aug-98 Thomas Berge wrote:
>I run a Linux 2.0.30 system with a number of Macintosh computers connected
>through the local network.
>
>The Macs may connect to the Internet via the Linux box using masquerading,
>and this works fine: As soon as one of the Macs need Internet-services, a
>DNS query makes diald (0.16.5) connect the line (via an external
>ISDN-"modem") and lets the Macs connect to the Internet.
>
>However, in recent versions of the Mac OS (it seems to be a problem with
>both 8.0 and 8.1), the Macs make www-queries even *AFTER* Netscape and all
>other
>programs on the Mac have been shut down. It seems that some kind of cache in
>the Macs keep calling some of the pages that have been visited at exectly
>every two minuts. This, of course, keeps diald from shutting down the line.
>If the offending Mac is rebooted the problem disappears until Netscape (or
>Explorer) has been used again.
>
>Any others with this problem? Any ideas on how to solve it?
You'll have to sniff the network to see what the traffic is first. Try tcpdump.
>
>(Is it possible to tweak the filter rules to make diald fix what I consider
>to be an error in MacOS? Needless to say, Apple didn't even bother to
>answer my
>Email asking about what I guess are requests from a cache in MacTCP.)
You'll only know once you find out what the traffic is.
I'm curious, let me know.
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