Hello,
Thank you for you advice!
I have done as you suggested and added an entry for my sl0 device in the
hosts file. I have also added options in my named.conf file to set it up as
a forwarder.
Now I am no longer getting any root server queries that will not keep the
link up unnecessarily.
However I noticed in my /var/log/messages file that when I am online and
named clears its cache, I can see that it is listening on ppp0, sl0 and
eth0. I find this to be slightly uncomfortable. Named should be for local
use ONLY and therefore listen ONLY on eth0. Is there a way to restrict it
only to eth0, if so I think it would prevent any other situations causing
diald to come up. This could also improve security.
Best Regards,
Vikash.
At 00:31 14/10/99 , Alex H. Vandenham wrote:
>One thing that worked for me was to add an entry to the hosts file (assuming
>you use that) which lists the sl0 interface that diald uses to detect
>traffic.
>In my case I used a local and remote pair in diald.conf ;
>
>local 192.168.2.10
>remote192.168.2.20
>
>so I added the local address to the hosts file;
>
># bogus interface to keep named happy with diald
>192.168.2.10 bogus.localdomain bogus
>
>Also, to host.conf I added;
>
># use hosts file before using nameserver lookups
>order hosts bind
>
>That stopped named from trying to call a nameserver for a lookup for that
>diald
>address (reverse lookup?) and eliminated a lot of connect attempts (once every
>15 minutes or so). What I do not know (yet) is if this causes any other
>problems. It all appeared t owork OK. Perhaps someone can comment??
>
>alex
>
>
>On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Vikash wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am having trouble in keeping diald under control when named is running.
> >
> > The link keeps coming up or stays up.
> >
> > Has anyone managed to keep them both happy?
> >
> > Please let me know.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Vikash.
> >
> >
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