wins-hook question

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

it's a group name, so it shouldn't be passed to wins hook, if that was
andrew's intent [no group names]

On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Giulio Orsero wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Jan 2000 08:21:53 +1100, hai scritto:
> 
> >GO> wins hook fires for  "WORKGROUP <00>" with ip 255.255.255.255.
> >GO> Is this correct being WORKGROUP <00> a group name?
> 
> >http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q163/4/09.asp?LNG=ENG&SA=ALLKB
> >addresses.  WINS  responds  to  a  name query on a group name with the
> >limited broadcast address (255.255.255.255). Because routers block the
> 
> I expressed it the wrong way, I think.
> I'm not arguing the fact that WORKGROUP <00> 255.255.255.255 is correct.
> I'm saying that the wins hook should be used to update dns, so it should
> not fires for group names. 
> I asked about this in the past and Andrew Tridgell said that "it won't
> do group names".
> So is WORKGROUP <00> 255.255.255.255 something particular that is not
> considered a group name?
> 
> If the wins hook behavior is right, then we need to set up a
> wins-hook-script that filters these values in order not to update dns
> with 255.255.255.255?
> 
> -- 
> giulioo at pobox.com
> 

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