On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 18:22:42 +0000, 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? > > Thanks for your comments. > Mike. Please see: gmane.comp.kde.general, thread: "Bad DNS Query for Date & Time" for additional information on this matter. The problem has not, as yet, been solved. Mike.