[ILUG] Samba and rogue DNS queries

Martin Feeney martin at tuatha.org
Fri Jun 4 12:00:51 IST 1999


Apologies in advance: This is not very linux-related except for the fact I 
didn't know it was happening until I read the nmb logs on my linux box.

I have a win95 client that _constantly_ sends out requests for _DNS_ 
resolution of the local workgroup, netbios computer name and netbios user 
to the linux wins server.  It's probably broadcasting to the entire 
network, but I have no way of knowing if the other win95 machine is 
getting dns/wins requests.

Does anyone know how to make it stop doing this.  I've mucked about with 
every setting in the dns/wins panel under '95s tcp/ip configuration panel 
to no avail.

The linux box is the browse master and wins server for the network.  The 
client machine points to a different machine for dns so the linux box 
should never get any DNS requests from the client.

Dazed and confused,

Martin.




More information about the ILUG mailing list