On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 08:12:39PM +0200, Theo. Sean Schulze wrote:
> Well, I've now gotten diald to connect when I want it to, but I guess I
> need to work on keeping it from connecting when I don't want it to. It
> seems that over the last hour or so that I have had diald up and running
> on my system it has dialed my ISP at each quarter hour minus one minute
> (e.g., 18:59, 19:14). Looking at the tail of /var/log/messages, I see
> that rule 22 proto 17 seems to be the culprit. What is this rule? I
> don't see any numbers in /usr/lib/diald/standard.filter. Where in the man
> pages is this addressed?
In my experience, seemingly unnecessary connects like this are usually caused
by something generating a host-lookup request which generates traffic
destined for your dns server. Something as simple as a "route" command to
display the routing table can do this.
If this is the case, you can:
1) Figure out what's doing the lookup and make it stop
2) Add frequently requested hosts to your hosts file and make sure
resolv.conf checks the host file first.
3) Run a name-server daemon (it can cache addresses and prevent external
lookups).
I haven't tried 3 yet.
--
Grant Edwards
Rosemount Inc.
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