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

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Michael D. Berger wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 20:02:09 +0100, John Hodrien wrote:
>> 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?
>
> How would I know?  I get nothing from:
> ps -ef | grep -i autofs
> yum -y list installed | grep -i autofs

Does rpm -qi autofs show nothing? If so, I'm a tad surprised, since that
takes care of not only nfs but also CD/DVDs and USB keys.

         mark