Occasionally, my WinGate seems to randomly dial out and connect to the Internet. Why might that be?
The problem of WinGate randomly dialing out to your service provider is most likely caused by DNS lookups coming from your workstations. These don’t have to be Internet DNS lookups, but can be requests for workstation names on your local network. Some TCP/IP stacks also have a built in name resolver that periodically refreshes their cache, NT 4, and MS office 97 seem to do this. The way to fix this is to edit the DNS service in WinGate, and uncheck the “allow service to start dialer” option. WinGate’s autodialer will still work for http and email requests, but not for SOCKS, or other native DNS lookups. Q: After sitting idle for a period of time, the WinGateEngine in my NT machine will no longer respond to requests from the workstation, requiring that I shut down, and restart the service, or Win95 will get a RNAAPP.EXE crash. A: This is the result of a timing problem between WinGate and RAS. It has to do specifically with the rate that WinGate’s dialer polls the RAS connection for conn
