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Date:      Mon, 30 Nov 1998 11:29:20 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Quintin Oliver <quintin@smlt.com>
To:        Mats Dufberg <dufberg@sunet.se>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Samba caues dialups.
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.96.981130112814.3740B-100000@orion.smlt.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSU.4.02A.9811291413270.9557-100000@bar.pilsnet.sunet.se>

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Hi Mats,

What you sugested seems to have done the trick, my phone bill will stay
nice 'in low now :-)

Cheers,

Quintin.

On Sun, 29 Nov 1998, Mats Dufberg wrote:

> On Sun, 29 Nov 1998, Quintin Oliver wrote:
> 
> > Whenever a Win95 client connects to Samba it causes UserPPP to dialup and
> > connect to the internet, I did a `tcpdump' and it looking for a domain ie
> > the dialup is caused by domain lookups.
> (...)
> > At first I thought that when the win95 client was connecting it was trying
> > to preform a lookup for the remotes IP address, well, the name server
> > hosts the forward and reverse for my local domain for example:
> > 
> > The FreeBSD machine is called `home.smlt.com'
> > The Win95 clients fall under `ws1.home.smlt.com' and `ws2.home.smlt.com'
> 
> 1. Make sure that "hosts" is before "bind" in /etc/host.conf
> 
> 2. Make sure that every host on the local network is refered to in
> /etc/hosts in every possible form, e.g.:
> 
> 10.1.2.1  ws1.home.smlt.com.  ws1.home.smlt.com  ws1
> 10.1.2.2  ws2.home.smlt.com.  ws2.home.smlt.com  ws2
> 
> 3. Make sure that "domain" is correct in /etc/resolv.conf. It should
> probably be
>   domain  home.smlt.com
> in your case.
> 
> 
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