On Sun, 09 Jan 2000, David J. Golden wrote:
> A possible additional step, from one of the BIND docs somewhere,
> will prevent named from trying to do lookups when offline. Replace
> the 'hints' file which contains the root servers with a bogus file.
> When you make a connection, the ip-up script should restore the
> original hints file. When the connection is broken, ip-down should
> restore the "bogus" file.
>
Normally you do not want to prevent a legitimate name lookup to fail and that's
what would happen if named can't trigger diald
> Note that this will simply cause named to return an error message to
> the requesting program, so it's not a perfect solution. But it should
> prevent named from triggering diald to connect.
>
> -- Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with your Microsoft
> product.
>
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