samba + dns

[Neulinger, Nathan R.]

Alternatively, you could just set up your local DNS server to answer
authoritative for the 1.1.10.in-addr.arpa domain and put in the host
entries.

-- Nathan

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Nathan Neulinger                       EMail:  nneul at umr.edu
University of Missouri - Rolla         Phone: (573) 341-4841
Computing Services                       Fax: (573) 341-4216 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: anoah [mailto:anoah at pfeiffer.edu]
> Sent: Monday, March 15, 1999 11:04 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: samba + dns
> 
> 
> 
> yes, we have several samba servers that are also masquerading 
> firewalls. when
> dns stops on the outside, even clients on the inside cant 
> login. a loss of
> service is how we determined that our local dns servers were 
> doing a reverse
> lookup on the 10.1.1.x subnet. 
> 
> even though we had local dns servers, they were still going 
> out on the net to
> look for those ip addresses hostnames. 
> 
> the quick fix: i whipped up a little script to put this in my 
> etc/hosts
> 
> 10.1.2.1	inside1
> 10.1.2.2	inside2
> 
> etc. we found that login service was restored, even though 
> the names in hosts
> file did not match the netbios names of the clients. all is well now!
> 
> note: supposedly, there is a switch in smb.conf to turn off 
> dns lookups, but it
> did not work! we use rh 5.x, kern 2.0.36 and 2.2.1, samba 
> 2.0.x, win9x clients.
> 
> al
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