Buglist to fix before 2.2.5

[Hunt, Bryan]

Its redhat 7.3 with glibc-2.2.5-34 and samba-2.2.3a-4.

--B 

-----Original Message-----
From: Ludolf Holzheid [mailto:lholzheid at bihl-wiedemann.de]
Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 6:33 PM
To: Richard Sharpe
Cc: samba-technical at samba.org
Subject: RE: Buglist to fix before 2.2.5


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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