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David Batterham (dkbat1@giaec.cc.monash.edu.au) wrote:
: Hi all,

: I have IP MASQ and DIALD running on a linux server. This all works
: wonderfully - sort of, but I have a problem with my routing.

: Currently I have m localnet set to my local IP network and localhost
: as normal. I also have defaultroute set up with diald so 2 more
: routes are added when it is active - namely a route to the ISP at the
: other end of the modem and a default route with uses this as the
: gateway.

: The problem is that any IP packets destined to this server from
: anotehr machine on the local network triggers the modem to connect.
: For instance telnetting to the server starts the connection. Also
: typing route to see the routing table does the same thing.

: Any help in setting up my routing to stop this would be greatly
: appreciated.

I'm not familiar with this setup at all, but I think I can guess at what
is happening. It looks like DNS requests are going to the remote host,
causing DIALD to bring the connection up.

Either run a local caching named (could be tricky to set up with something
like DIALD), or make sure that _all_ machines have "order hosts bind" in
"host.conf" _and_ they have a complete list of local hosts in the "hosts"
file.

In my opinion, the caching named may be a better solution, because then
you would be able to resolve commonly accessed DNS requests without
putting up the link (or generating traffic if the link is up). However,
this could be hard (impossible?) to set up, and would probably need fine
tuning to make it work well.

: If replies could be mirrored to my email as well I would be grateful:

: dkbat1@mugc.cc.monash.edu.au

ABO