Internal DNS server. Failure, when a client a) registers an IP b) deletes that IP c) registers again

Ricky Nance ricky.nance at gmail.com
Fri May 31 11:36:42 MDT 2013


On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Michael Wood <esiotrot at gmail.com> wrote:

> Should "allow dns updates = yes" (or "true" or "1" or "on" or "enabled") be
> deprecated for 4.1?  It seems like it's likely to be used by mistake
> otherwise when the user does not read the documentation properly or copies
> an smb.conf from someone's blog etc.
>

I would think that some systems lack being able to do a secure DDNS update,
it defaults to enabled IIRC, but personally I'd leave it as an option, even
if its just putting a warning to the user in the man pages and possibly to
the log file in debug(0).

Ricky


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