might take a look at /etc/hosts.conf, make sure all your local hosts are in /etc/hosts and specify "order hosts bind" in /etc/hosts.conf. also, make a hosts file for the winders machines, or specify the linux server as a WINS server. win32 will usually check WINS and then DNS even for local hosts. -- ======================================================================== Rocky McGaugh Atipa Linux Solutions Linux Systems Engineer www.atipa.com rocky@smluc.org rmcgaugh@atipa.com ======================================================================== On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, JJ Hendriksen wrote:

Hi,

I'm having some troubles with ipchains. I'll try to be short on this one :-) I have got four machines, three mostly windows, one linux server. I am trying to configure ipchains so that i can masq my local network addresses so that i can use my ppp0 link on my server through each pc. works fine, except for the fact that one daemon tries to do nameserver lookups regularly. I have entered some rules in ipchains so that ports 137, 138 and 139 (netbios ports) are not being forwarded. But when i dump the traffic on my ppp0 link using tcpdump, I can see my (dynamic) ip address of my server as the source address, and the nameserver from my provider as the destination of the frames which cause my server to dial-in (un- wanted!).

I don't have bind, the only daemons I can imagine doing such nameserver lookups, are nmbd and/or smbd.

Can anybody help me out here?

TIA,

Joost-Jan

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