AW: nmbd & netbios name -> many addreses

Jeremy Allison jallison at cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
Fri Mar 12 17:44:10 GMT 1999


Andrew Tridgell wrote:

> What we need to know is:
> 
> 1) does a NT WINS server send back all IPs when a client queries a
>    multi-homed name that is registered with WINS.
> 2) if it does, then is there any difference between how we send the
>    name query reply and how the NT WINS server does it.
> 
> To do these tests we need to have a multi-homed NT client. I don't
> have one :(

Well when I coded up that bit in nmbd I was working with
traces from a multi-homed client and an NT WINS server.

I'm pretty sure that nmbd is behaving the same way as NT
does in this respect (I was working with NT4.x).

Jeremy.

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