First, an easy question. Is there a simple way to get -idle to override -persistent. I want to redial until I get connected, but if I forget to log off, I want the modem to hang up after 15 minutes. This seems like a reasonble thing to do.
OK, now the real question. IMHO it's a fun one. I'm running slink and using my box to share a modem with another machine, an NT box. I'm using IP_Masquerade for this purpose and it works beautifully. I'm also running named so that my nt box looks to my debian box for all services... Samba works, and the NT box seems happy enough. All is kosher most of the time. Problem is, when I'm offline and start netscape, the program freezes up. I've straced this problem and recognize that Netscape is confused by my own nameserver. It keeps trying and trying to do dns lookups against it and never realizes that we're offline. I've verified that this is the problem by killing named. With named dead, I'm able to start netscape up while offline with no troubles. I'm looking for the best solution here. Perhaps I don't need named at all to have a happy NT box using my linux box as a gateway and samba server. This is just a home network with two machines... so there's no real urgency here. I just used named because it was the easiest way to get samba to work... turn off WINS and set up a very simple nameserver. Perhaps there is some other simple fix like showing named to my nt box but not to my linux box. (That is, nt would point to the linux box for DNS, but the linux box itself would not use it's own dns server.) Or maybe I should set up squid and point netscape to a proxy. Dunno. Ideas warmly appreciated! Regards, Doug -- Free the mallocs! Douglas Eck <> http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~deck <> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
