DNS/netbios WAS: Re: New Microsoft Knowledgebase article

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Michael H. Warfield wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 05:12:08AM +1100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> > > > 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).
> 
> 	But we're not talking about names from the Netbios name table, Luke.

have i got this the other way round, then?  yes, i have, haven't i.  i'm
thinking of "wins server" should only register 00 / 20 / 1b names with
bind, using "wins script".