DIAGNOSIS.txt TEST 5

[Tulipánt Gergely]

Herb Lewis <herb at chomps.engr.sgi.com> wrote:

> > Everything else works, but "nmblookup -B ACLIENT '*'".
> > It shows the servers IP address, unless "ACLIENT" can be resolved thru hosts/dns.
> > Can someone explain me why?

> I'm not sure what they are trying to accomplish with this test. The -B 
> option takes an arguement of the broadcast address. You are trying to 
> do a name query for '*' to the broadcast address ACLIENT. It needs to
> resolve ACLIENT by hosts/dns to supply the broadcast address.

They want to test the client configuration with this. I think ACLIENT should be 
IP_ADDRESS_OF_ACLIENT for this.

But I still wonder why nmblookup doesn't complain about not being able to resolve the broadcast 
address you put after -B.