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named on Solaris causing lots of dialups

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From: James Murray
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 00:00
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I know there may be a better forum to ask this question, but I expect
someone here may be able to give a sensible answer.

One Solaris (2.7) machine I run has a Solaris ppp connection to Demon,
it is dynamic and works pretty much ok. (Not as good as a free version
that I used to use under SunOs though and not as good as on the 2.6 machine)

I've got named working, having moved the ppp/named/sendmail setup over
from a Solaris 2.6 machine. I also run webroute as an http proxy server
for the Windows machines on the LAN - Solaris doesn't seem to support
IP masquerading like Linux does.
All seems ok, except at times when the link is up and down like a yo-yo.
I've traced this to named and turned the debug up to see what it is doing.
It seems to keep querying websites that were looked up earlier. This
persists even if I kill off the webroute. A 127.0.0.1:xxx -> 127.0.0.1:yyy
connection is logged and a name lookup request for some ancient website.
This also persists if I kill off named and restart.

I have a vague recollection of this happening before, but it didn't do it
until I swapped machines. (I have even copied the named binary from the
previous 2.6 machine as they use a far newer release of BIND which uses
a totally different config file format. I also noticed that Solaris 2.7
sendmail can't talk ESMTP! It got an error talking to post as it
said LHLO instead of EHLO.)

Any help or pointers appreciated.

jsm
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