How to get nmbd to work?

[Peter Blake]

On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Nathan Neulinger wrote:

> 
> I have NEVER been able to get nmbd to work in anything even remotely 
> approximating a usable fashion.
> 
> All I want it to do is DNS lookups.
> 
> I can't even get it to do that reliably. It looks in some cases like it 
> isn't even sending a response back to the querying clients.
> 
> When I do a request that fails, I get this:
> 
> ---
> nmb packet from 192.55.114.4(3175) header: id=8172 opcode=Query(0) 
> response=No
>     header: flags: bcast=Yes rec_avail=No rec_des=Yes trunc=No auth=No
>     header: rcode=0 qdcount=1 ancount=0 nscount=0 arcount=0
>     question: q_name=GAMMA(0) q_type=32 q_class=1
> Name query from 192.55.114.4 for name GAMMA<0x0>
> Found DNS cache entry GAMMA(0)
> ---
> 
> Nothing gets sent back.
> 

Hi,

Are the reverse mappings in your dns correct and complete?

Have you got the stops in the right places in the forward lookup?

Have got any stops in the wrong places in the forward lookup?

Try sending a SIGUSR1 to named to put it debug mode, and then look in the
debug output. Send named a SIGINT and inspect the namedb dump.

While in debug, send SIGHUP and check the debug output for errors found
when reloading.

Don't forget to SIGUSR2 named to take it out of debug mode!

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Peter Blake
ppb at hft.co.uk
ppb at baloo.tcp.co.uk