More questions about WINS, interfaces, etc
Philip A. Prindeville
philipp at enteka.com
Thu Sep 18 09:01:20 GMT 1997
I have yet another question about WINS and DNS... Why can't the
DNS be used as the database of reference for name-to-address
mappings when using NB over TCP/IP? Assuming you could easily
make incremental changes to the name server and propagate them
out to all of the secondaries, then why bother having nmbd (or
whatever) keep in-memory tables at all?
On the subject of that, who would be responsible for adding the
name to the DNS: Samba or the DHCP server? What about
deletions?
I've modified source/interface.c to handle interface names instead
of addresses/netmasks... I thought this might be nicer since if
you renumber a network or change a host's address, the fewer
places you have to change its IP address the better. So with these
patches (I'm working with 1.9.16p11 -- sorry) you can say something
like:
interfaces = le0 le1
or
interfaces = all
(where "all" excludes interfaces that aren't "running" or that
are "loopback".)
Does anyone really use iface_set_default()? Or is this there
mostly to support the defunct -B option? Can this be safely nuked?
(Assuming the calls to it in client.c and nmblookup.c get cleaned
up...)
-Philip
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