Quibbles re WINS

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, David Collier-Brown wrote:

> Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> > 
> > On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, David Collier-Brown wrote:
> > >       I wasn't clear... I meant nmbd to **be** a cache,
> > >       and merely refer to ldap/whatever when a TTL had
> > >       run out or something wasn't found.
> 
> Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> > > this isn't recommended [cacheing of netbios resolutions].
> 
> 	Did you mean client or server?

nmbd-as-a-wins-server.

> 	I wouldn't want clients caching such, but
> 	I would want Sambae which were "directoris" servers
> 	to cache what they'd looked up from slower but more
> 	authoritative sources (eg, remote DNSs, ldaps)

not a good idea, trust me.

instead, send a "WACK" wait-for-acknowledge to the wins client doing the
query, then do a lookup to the slow authoritative source and then respond.

luke