Re: NT causes continual dialup.
> I've just added an NT 4.0 server machine onto my linux network so I can
> work on learning it. Anyway, since I've added it, my dial up
> connection has been going on continually. It appears to be dns look
> ups since it is connecting on port 53. Does anyone know how to stop
> this in NT?
>
I have seen similar behavior.
While I don't have auto dialup, I noticed that NT wouldn't print until
I turned on my ppp connection.
Since I don't have auto dialup, I solved my problem by adding to
/etc/ppp/ip-down.d a script that did
ln -fs ./named.root.fake /var/named/named.root
/usr/sbin/ndc restart
Of course I had to return the original dns service in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d.
Note that this all presumed I ran a DNS server,
which wasn't too difficult to setup, but might took many hours to
resolve what all the documentation said.
This approach follows somewhat some HOWTO document,
maybe the DNS-HOWTO or PPP-HOWTO.
For your case with auto dialup, this might work if all the NT computer
wants is DNS service.
However, I am not versed enough in auto dialup to know the better solutions.
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Jim Burt, NJ9L, Fairfax, Virginia, USA
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