Problem, possibly new for 2.2.0, with lmhosts
Steve Langasek
vorlon at netexpress.net
Wed May 23 17:57:07 GMT 2001
On Wed, 23 May 2001, David Collier-Brown wrote:
> Steve Langasek wrote:
> > But the *DNS server* that you're running on your machine does not use
> > /etc/hosts when responding to DNS requests from other machines. Clients on
> > the local machine use /etc/hosts; nothing else does.
> That makes sense, but if I say "hosts: files dns" in
> my /etc/nsswitch.conf, I do expect everything that
> uses name service to look in files first, then dns.
> I expected the same from name resolve order: if I
> say "name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast"
> I expect all clients [see next para] of the service
> to look in lmhosts, then the hosts file, then wins
> and finally broadcast.
> From what you said, only the samba server uses this, and
> only when it is acting as a client... to what??? Does
> this only apply to smbclient?
The Samba server does act as a client occasionally. If you have a 'password
server' setting, I believe this can be specified as a netbios name, in which
case 'name resolve order' is used to turn that name into an IP. The big users
of this setting are still client apps, however; smbclient is one,
and rpcclient, smbmount, smbsh, and libsmbclient-based apps would be others.
Everything that uses netbios name service looks at 'name resolve order', just
as everything that uses name service looks at /etc/nsswitch.conf. But just as
bind doesn't look at nsswitch to find out where it should get its DNS
information, nmbd doesn't look at 'name resolve order' because it's the server
/providing/ the netbios information, not a client consuming it.
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer
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