On 09/04/2013 11:05 PM, George Adams wrote:
> I am running BackupPC 3.3.0 on an Ubunut 12.04.3 system.  My hosts (which are 
> all Windows PCs accessed via SMB) are set to dhcp=0, which has worked well 
> over several years/versions of BackupPC.  According to the docs on "How 
> BackupPC Finds Hosts", these sequence is:
> 
> - first gethostbyname()
> - then nmblookup if the DNS lookup fails.
> 
> However I am on Time Warner/Road Runner which apparently does DNS hijacking 
> in my area.  So EVERY DNS lookup is successful.  Any lookup of a non-existent 
> host returns the TWC search page address.

Do yourself a favor and switch your router to use the OpenDNS or
Google DNS servers. You'll probably get better performance, as well as
real NXDOMAIN responses.

Regards,
Raman Gupta

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