DNS/netbios WAS: Re: New Microsoft Knowledgebase article

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

> > are there some scripts that take the netbios name from a dhcpd.leases
> > file and genereate some bind config files (some A, and IN PTR records
> > .) ?
> > (in order to keep the DNS and netbios names in sync ...)
> 
> 	I saw (had) some scripts that worked with the ISC dhcpd server
> and translated to dynamic DNS updates.  Problem was that you need to
> do some REALLY GOOD filtering because some of those netbios names are
> ILLEGAL in DNS (names with illegal characters likes spaces, dashes, dots,
> etc, etc, etc).  Then you have to decide just what to do when someone
> DOES add a name with illegal characters.  It seems that the DHCP
> protocol has no provisions for refusing an address because the name
> is illegal.

only <00> / <20> and <1b> names should be registered (SMB client / SMB
server /  DOMAIN name).