nmbd as WINS proxy

Simo Sorce simo.sorce at polimi.it
Thu Mar 8 16:01:57 GMT 2001


On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Kevin Colby wrote:

> Simo Sorce wrote:
> >
> > Why not making one of the Linux servers a dns server?
> > or alternatively what about populating the hosts and lmhosts files?
>
> I know one reason why not to.
>
>
> CHEUNG Ngai Tseung wrote:
> >
> > [...] My problem is that being an NT shop our IT people
> > won't support DNS, instead using wins and DHCP [...]
>                                         ^^^^^^^^
>
> We would love to dump our WINS here, but ISC has still not released
> official DDNS/DHCP integration.  Without it, I don't see moving from
> WINS/DHCP to DNS as an option for larger networks.

We have a fantastic DDNS/DHCP there, don't know if it is offcial, but it
works greatly!

>
> 	- Kevin Colby
> 	  kevinc at grainsystems.com
>

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