UNIX DNS talking to WINS using samba

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl at switchboard.net
Mon Aug 31 12:48:22 GMT 1998


> Bind 8 supports a feature called 'Dynamic DNS updates'. If I understood
> well the papers and the RFCs, it's designed to update the DNS mainly from
> a DHCP daemon. NMBD could support this feature, updating the DNS from the
> Wins database, but IMHO I don't think it's a good idea.

it would be better to seed the wins database from the dns one.



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