[plug] DNS

[chris]

ugh, everytime I've seen a windows XP box trying to be used in
networking, and someone has attempted to turn on that ICS function or
that plug'n'play function (which is to do with winXP running a wierd
kind of MS-proxy to allow DirectX games to run through its firewall) --
I've seen trouble. 
there is a documented issue on the 192.168.0.1 thing - I dont think you
can turn it off? best thing to do is avoid that address range I guess. I
think MS went a little TOO far in making it "easy" for
computer-illiterates to "do technical stuff" by just forcing it to
certain functions by default ? dunno, but it has made what should have
been a couple of simple support issues just rediculously drawn out from
what I've seen of it. 

On Mon, 2002-06-03 at 21:29, Robert Andrews wrote:
> Hi thanks for the help fellas
> Yes I think you are right about the windows machine I have a windows machine
> at my workshop (XP)
> that is on my wireless network I enabled Internet shareing on that comp so
> that it could
> route packets between its wlan card and its ethernet card that the other 2
> windows 98 machines
> are on.
> Haveing read some info on XP internet shareing it assigns by default the
> address 192.168.0.1 to its bridgeing device
> however after allowing internet conection shareing I manually changed these
> address to 192.168.3 on.
> This still does not match 192.168.1.1 however it is windows and who knows
> I will have to wait till tomorrow so I cant shut it down to see if the prob
> gos.
> And yes my Linux box is the gateway for my other comps.
> 
> Regards Bob Andrews.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Shackleton [mailto:kevins at wn.com.au]
> Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 8:59 PM
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] DNS
> 
> 
> Since you're getting a netbios port showing in tcpdump, presumably it's
> something to do with Samba and/or Windows PCs on your network.  Is it a
> response
> to a prior query from the smb network - a workgroup membership thing maybe.
> Run
> tcpdump with no arguments to see what else is out there (may have to pull
> the
> plug on some machines so you're not inundated with traffic?)
> 
> Why do you have a ppp0 network port anyway?  Are you the gateway for your
> radio
> LAN?  Isn't that where the IP address config is?
> 
> K.
> 
> Robert Andrews wrote:
> 
> > if I do
> > tcpdump -NnOqt src 203.57.132.141
> > I get the following constantly
> > (note) I no longer have 192.168.1.1 as a ip address or network on my
> system
> >
> > ppp0 > 203.57.132.141.61001 > 192.168.1.1.netbios-ns: udp 68
> > ppp0 > 203.57.132.141.61001 > 192.168.1.1.netbios-ns: udp 68
> > ppp0 > 203.57.132.141.61001 > 192.168.1.1.netbios-ns: udp 68
> >
>