Buglist to fix before 2.2.5
Ludolf Holzheid
lholzheid at bihl-wiedemann.de
Fri May 17 10:36:02 GMT 2002
On 18 May 2002 at 3:54, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> On Fri, 17 May 2002, Hunt, Bryan wrote:
>
> >
> > Yo,
> > One bug that it would be totally cool if it were fixed would be the
> > wins lookup ( libnss_wins.so ) it works with ping but not with telnet
> > or any other application. Some people are using linux boxes as
> > workstations in networks without dns. With this working they would not have
> > to find out ip addresses for their mail servers/people running webservers
> > on machines that have dynamic ip addresses. In short it would be a sweet
> > feature.
>
> If ping works, and telnet doesn't, it would seem that your telnet is not
> using the correct libraries.
To my experience, telnet wants to get/resolve the DNS names of the
peer (client or server, respectively) while ping is happy with the IP
addresses.
> What platform is this on?
>
> Regards
> -----
> Richard Sharpe, rsharpe at ns.aus.com, rsharpe at samba.org,
> sharpe at ethereal.com
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