nmbd using the wrong source address upon sending Node Status requests

Richard Sharpe rsharpe at richardsharpe.com
Fri Apr 25 07:42:57 GMT 2003


On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, Volker Lendecke wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 12:32:59AM -0700, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> > Right, but Samba is already enumerating interfaces. It simply has to pick 
> > the first interface in the list that is broadcast capable.
> 
> I'd rather vote for checking that the IP address is not starting with
> 127.

Well, that will be OK until someone does some funny routing tricks and 
applies a non-127 net address to lo.

Regards
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Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]ns.aus.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org, 
sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com



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