WIN95 and NT systems do a DNS lookup for the workgroup name periodically.
I solved it by running a local nameserver and putting the workgroup name in
the local domain cache, but that's kind of complicated.
Otherwise, the only solution is to use the diald filters to prevent dialing
for DNS lookups (Port 53, I think)
-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Sprague <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: linux-diald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
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Date: Tuesday, May 12, 1998 6:41 PM
Subject: diald keeps dialing out
>Forgive me if this has been addressed before (I'm sure it has). I have a
>small network of win95 /nt and Linux machines hooked up via ethernet to
>a Linux (Redhat 5.0) box running Samba (works great) and using diald to
>dial my isp and ipfwadm to link my net to the internet. I've finally got
>it all working...but! When no-one is accessing the internet diald dials
>every few minutes. Why? I checked the man for diald and it mentions this
>but it just gives a general " something must be sending packets" answer.
>I know I can use tcpdump to look at the packets, but I don't really know
>what I'm looking for. Help!
>
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