pppd, named and netscape
First, an easy question. Is there a simple way to get -idle to
override -persistent. I want to redial until I get connected, but
if I forget to log off, I want the modem to hang up after 15 minutes.
This seems like a reasonble thing to do.
OK, now the real question.
IMHO it's a fun one. I'm running slink and using my box to share a modem
with another machine, an NT box. I'm using IP_Masquerade for this
purpose and it works beautifully. I'm also running named so that
my nt box looks to my debian box for all services... Samba works, and
the NT box seems happy enough. All is kosher most of the time.
Problem is, when I'm offline and start netscape, the program freezes up.
I've
straced this problem and recognize that Netscape is confused by my
own nameserver. It keeps trying and trying to do dns lookups against
it and never realizes that we're offline. I've verified that this
is the problem by killing named. With named dead, I'm able to start
netscape up while offline with no troubles.
I'm looking for the best solution here. Perhaps I don't need named
at all to have a happy NT box using my linux box as a gateway and
samba server. This is just a home network with two machines... so
there's no real urgency here. I just used named because it was the
easiest way to get samba to work... turn off WINS and set up a very
simple nameserver. Perhaps there is some other simple fix like showing
named to my nt box but not to my linux box. (That is, nt would point
to the linux box for DNS, but the linux box itself would not use it's
own dns server.) Or maybe I should set up squid and point netscape to
a proxy. Dunno.
Ideas warmly appreciated!
Regards,
Doug
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Douglas Eck <> http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~deck <>
deck@nospam.cs.indiana.edu
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