TNG definitely not working on my libc5 system

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl at samba.org
Fri Apr 14 12:48:27 GMT 2000


*SMBSERVER, not SMBSERVER, that's not good.

On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Kurt Fitzner wrote:

> The packets on my cable modem aren't a broadcast to 255.255.255.255, they are
> a DNS lookup.  Thing is, they're a DNS lookup for the name 'SMBSERVER'.  It
> tries 6 lookups with various attempts at upper and lowercase versions of
> SMBSERVER and SMBSERVER.v-wave.com (my domain).
> 
> >From a cursory glance at the source, it looks to me like SMBSERVER is supposed
> to be a string that is replaced by the actual host name.  Problems with
> string functions in libc5?
> 
> If you want a tcpdump file of what's going on, let me know.
> 
>         Kurt.
> 

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