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

Thu Sep 1 14:07:16 UTC 2011
Michael D. Berger <m_d_berger_1900 at yahoo.com>

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.