Mike Jagdis wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Robert Nicol wrote:
>
> > I also have 2 Windoze 98 machines on my network, and I am
> > running sambe on both linux boxes. From time to time, my DNS seems to
> > be looking up something, and seems to become totally caught up in doing
> > that. (watching the connection Que in dctrl, I can see that it is
> > continually asking every server in hints, over and over again)
>
> 99% of lookups on the root servers are stupid questions from
> stupid Windows machines :-(.
>
> > 1) can my DNS be set up to handle netbios lookups - athouratatively,
> > and if so how? That may solve part to the problem.
>
> If you are seeing DNS traffic either the Windows machines are
> configured to do DNS look ups or you are seeing samba trying
> to satisfy WINS queries by consulting DNS. You can stop samba
> forwarding queries to DNS (see "man 5 smb.conf" and search for
> "dns"). Of course, stopping DNS look ups could stop your Windows
> machines seeing *anything* beyond the local net...
>
> > 2) when a DNS request is what brings up the link... if I have my home
> > page set to my local network, could I bypass the dns problem by having a
> > link in my home page go to an outside server by ip address (say my home
> > directory on my ISP)? That way DNS shouldn't be needed?
>
> Since you mentioned hints you seem to be running a local name
> server already so:
>
> 1. Make sure *everything* points to the local name server. Not
> your ISP's name servers.
>
> 2. Make sure /etc/resolv.conf lists *only* 127.0.0.1 otherwise
> your local name server may be bypassed.
>
> 3. Use the forward option in your name server's config and list
> your ISP's name servers.
>
> 4. Comment out the hints loading. Your ISP's servers can handle
> onward queries. If they aren't running your ISP is probably
> down anyway :-).
>
> 5. Now you can turn your name server's query logging on and
> gaze in awe at the crap that it gets hit with.
>
> 6. For advanced users: Tell your name server to act as a master
> for domains as necessary. Having it as a master for whatever
> you are using as a local domain is useful. It is also useful
> to "stub" some obviously bogus domains by having your name
> server master them using a file containing nothing but an SOA
> record. Remember, if your name server knows it is a master
> or slave for the zone it will never forward requests for that
> zone.
>
> Mike
>
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