[CentOS] CentOS 6, KDE 4: bad DNS traffic

John Hodrien J.H.Hodrien at leeds.ac.uk
Wed Aug 31 19:02:09 UTC 2011


On Wed, 31 Aug 2011, Michael D. Berger wrote:

> On my new CentOS 6, KDE 4, running WireShark I see what appears
> to be frequent nonsensical DNS queries, for example:
>   "settings-personal.desktop" and "settings-system.desktop".
> The DNS response is always:"No such name".  Do tell!
> These appear especially when I click on things on the KDE
> menus.  On my old CentOS 5 box, on the same LAN, I see no
> such thing.  I note that I have replaced the original
> /etc/hosts with my own.  Might these have been resolved
> in the original?

Random stab in the dark...

Are you running the autofs with /net or similar configured?

jh



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