DNS Lookups

Simon Hyde shyde at poboxes.com
Thu Sep 25 15:34:56 GMT 1997


On Thu, 25 Sep 1997 12:09:14 +1000, you wrote:

>
>V. 1.9.17p1, FreeBSD.
>
>Why is it that SAMBA will do a DNS lookup for a WINS host (that is not
>in DNS), even though nmblookup returns the IP address straightaway?
>
>The problem I'm having is that my dialup connection is activated when DNS
>packets are detected.  This seems to happen all the time, even though no
>traffic is destined for the Internet.  SMB seems to work fine.
>
>Any pointers appreciated.
>
Try setting up a hosts file (in the same windows subdirectory as hosts.sam on your
PCs and usually /etc/hosts on your Unix system) that way any attempt to lookup the
hostname of a machine will never get as far as DNS if it is in your hosts file.


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