Current patch for DHCP discovery of WINS servers

[Andrew Bartlett]

Shirish Kalele wrote:
> 
> Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > >
> > > Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Tridge:
> > > > I've regenerated (bug not tested) this against current HEAD.  Probably
> > > > best to make it use the generic cache you were talking about on IRC.
> > > > I've #if 0'ed out the dhcp-discover version.  Its probably fine, but I
> > > > had reservations at the time I was looking at this.
> > > >
> > > > Shirish:
> > > > Have you updated this patch since you first proposed it?  Its starting
> > > > to get the serious attention it deserves, so it may yet see the light
> of
> > > > day :-)
> > > >
> 
> I haven't updated it. I remember there was some discussion about this, but
> can't quite recall what the conclusion was..
> 
> - SK

Basicly the disucssion was that every client tool should not do a dhcp
query - that nmbd would have to do the query and store it in some form
of cache.  It looks like we are going to get that sometime soon, so your
patch might finally make it in :-).

Tridge is looking into things.

Andrew Bartlett

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