Richard Thwaites wrote:
> I'm running 99.3 on Mandrake 7. distro, and also overlaid pmfirewall with
> its default rules (to save getting out of my depth in ipchains).
>
> My Netscape browser is set to open on a blank page - however whenever I open
> the browser on the blank page, diald starts up my dial-up link .
>
> Today I let the link hangup at my usual timeout (30mins) while I was doing
> other things, but left the browser open. When I came to close the browser
> before logging off, diald brought up the link again as Netscape was closing
> - not much point in that!
>
> I have browser prefs set to allow cookies after warning me first - but no
> cookie warning accomapnies these unwanted diald-ups.
>
> Can anyone kindly point me to what ipchains rules or other settings I should
> check so that Netscape only stimulates diald when I actually ask it to?
>
> the collecive wisdom on this list has been much appreciated so far.
>
> Richard.
Ricahrd,
Try putting the hostnames and IP addresses of your mail and news servers in your
local /etc/hosts file. This should stop any DNS lookups from trying to access
your ISP's DNS servers. Also make sure that /etc/nsswitch.conf has a line like
this in it:
hosts: files dns
And /etc/hosts.conf looks like this:
order hosts,bind
multi on
These files set the order of host lookups so that the local /etc/hosts file will
be looked at before a DNS lookup.
Bob...
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