CVS update: samba/source/nmbd

Jean Francois Micouleau Jean-Francois.Micouleau at dalalu.fr
Fri Feb 15 10:59:59 EST 2002


On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 herb at samba.org wrote:

> allow nmbd to register 1b name with wins server if there is an old IP there.
>
> This causes the become_domain_master_query_success function to try to
> continue to become a dmb even if we got a response to the 1b name query.
> If the machine is still alive, and defending the name, we will get an
> error and fail to become dmb (as we should). If there is no machine
> defending, we will register the name. This was tested with broadcast as
> well and I could see no problems with this. If the name query is not
> tried again in broadcast mode you can get an old IP from your browse
> cache and not register even though the machine is gone.

that's correct Herb, well spotted !

	J.F.





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