[solved?] Re: [jcifs] NbtAddress.getByName() failing when I use a hostname.]

[Rob Wygand]

When I say became, I mean I changed it from pickle (NBT) to 
pickle.filefish.com (DNS). This could easily have been pickle (NBT) and 
relish.filefish.com (DNS). Both names resolve to the name box, of course.

Not sure what you mean when you say we need to have a long talk.. 
according to the JCIFS API docs, "The server component may a traditional 
NetBIOS name, a DNS name, or IP address. These name resolution 
mechanisms and their resolution order can be changed..."

I'm just saying that as long as it's a NBT or an IP it works great, but 
name resolution when it's a DNS name is flaky. Like I said, it worked 
once or twice then started throwing UnknownHostExceptions until I 
restarted my app, then worked again a few times until it started 
throwing exceptions again. As soon as I switched to an IP address 
instead of the DNS name it worked great.

The exception it was throwing was that PICKLE.FILEFISH. was not a known 
host. I'm fairly certain that jcifs.netbios.resolveOrder had DNS first.

I've got a workaround that works, so I'm not in any great need, but I 
wanted to let you know that I had this, what I consider weird, problem.

rjw

Michael B. Allen wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 07:19:56PM -0700, Rob Wygand wrote:
> 
>>This issue doesn't seem to want to die for me.
>>
>>I made some changes in my code today in the way that I use JCIFS. 
>>Particularly, I switched from using the NBT name in the URL to create an 
>>SmbFile to a domain name. So:
>>
>>	smb://WORKGROUP;rob:password@pickle/
>>became
>>	smb://WORKGROUP;rob:password@pickle.filefish.com/
>>
> 
> Huh? What do you mean it 'became'. Do you mean that 'filefish.com' was
> automatically appended to the CIFS domain 'pickle'? I don't see how that
> could happen. If you mean that /you/ added it, then that's not how this
> stuff works and we need to have a long talk :~)
> 
> You know, mixing Nbt with DNS is a Bad Thing. You should pick one
> or the other and stick to it. Primarily you should stick to netbios
> names. Then, if that fails, let it fall through to trying DNS. If you
> know that NetBIOS is going to fail (because you know there is no WINS,
> etc) then put DNS in the front of the resolveOrder.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
>>This worked once or twice, and then started throwing exceptions claiming 
>>that PICKLE.FILEFISH could not be resolved. You'd said that SmbFile does 
>>all the magical stuff of resolving hostnames to NBT names, but as soon 
>>as I changed the URL to use the ip address (via 
>>InetAddress.getHostAddress()) everything started working again and 
>>hasn't displayed any problems all day...
>>
>>Just a heads up,
>>rjw
>>
>>Michael B. Allen wrote:
>>
>>>On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 09:51:16AM -0700, Kammy Wesley wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>We put in ocean.filefish.com.  The NbtAddress is translating that into 
>>>>"OCEAN.FILEFISH."
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Ahh, it just hit me. That's not a netbios name so you can't use it
>>>with _NbtAddress). The SmbFile class uses SmbURL to do all that extra name
>>>resolution stuff with DNS and such. Maybe you can do:
>>>
>>>NbtAddress a = NbtAddress.getByName((new SmbFile( whatevername )).getServer());
>>>
>>>Pretty ugly because it does redundant lookups but the name will resolve
>>>quickly the second time because it would be cached at that point. If
>>>you're working withing the jCIFS package you might hook into the name
>>>resolution code directly. Unfortunately I just don't have the time to
>>>instruct you guys better.
>>>
>>>Mike
>>>
>>>