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

Michael D. Berger m_d_berger_1900 at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 31 21:46:52 UTC 2011


On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:19:05 -0400, m.roth-x6lchVBUigD1P9xLtpHBDw wrote:

> 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
Running:
   rpm -qi autofs
shows:
   package autofs not installed
at levels 3 and 5.

Mike.




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