DNS/netbios

[David Bear]

This will really bite you in the tail if you have your smb resolver in nt
set to look in a dns for netbios names...  The BIG thing about netbios and
dns is DNS is heirarchical and partitionable. whereas the netbios name
space is flat and non-partionalable.  It would be very difficult if not
impossible to have a netbios name server handle every netbios name in the
known world.  This is why dns was invented, so you could partition the
name space and delagate management of those names to downline servers.
Moreover, smb clients and servers register more than a single name -- and
there are shared/non-unique names -- and it is all very dynamic.  My
question is, when nt uses dns to resolve a netbios name, what does it do
to the 16 byte when looking for machine name, workgroup name, pdc name,
etc?  

David Bear
College of Public Programs/ASU
A word is just two nibbles and a byte...