RE: [TCLUG:1315] Internet server (was: Why Linux?)

["Carl Patten" <cpatte@trimodalinc.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neal Tovsen [mailto:ntovsen@piper.hamline.edu]
> I had Dial-on-Demand working for a while (using the HOW-TO), but
> it seems as
> though Win95 sends out some funky network packets that the server
> interpreted as a request to connect to the Internet. If one of my clients
> was running Win95, even if nothing was open and no one was using it, my
> Linux box would spontaneously dial-up. There's nothing freakier
> than almost
> falling asleep at night, when you hear the modem dialing in the next room,
> and there's no one else in the house!! Anyway, I shut off D-O-D. Anyone
> happen to know if I could make it stop that?

Here's an article that may help you fix the auto-dial problem.  Windows 95
apparently does random DNS lookups that trigger the D-O-D link.  The
solution was to point the Windows box to a local DNS server (which in your
case could be the Linux box).

http://www.brettglass.com/ttr19980130b.html

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Carl Patten
Systems Administrator
Trimodal Inc.