Name Resolution Problems

[Matthew Geddes]

Ed Presutti wrote:
> 
> Is there any way to make BIND use WINS with Samba? I'm running 2 Linux boxes
> with BIND 8.2.2P5 and our organization is wanting WINS lookup, they're
> complaining about the fact that workstations don't appear in DNS. I'm
> wondering if there is a way to make BIND use WINS as a secondary lookup
> source like Wintendo DNS does. I just don't want to have to get rid of BIND
> on behalf of the fact that our programmers want reverse lookup to work on
> PC's! Thanks in advance.
> 

I believe there is a module called nss_wins which can be used for Unix
machines to do host lookups through WINS.

You could always just add some records to you DNS server. We use DHCP
here and I just have a few dummy workstation entries to allow reverse
lookups.

Matt

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Matthew Geddes
Network Manager
Xavier College
Gawler, SA