DDNS

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at pcug.org.au
Fri Oct 5 15:03:05 GMT 2001


"Petter T. Olsson" wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
>    Is it possible to run Samba without netbios and only use DNS.  Trying
> to figure out a way to run DDNS on the network.

I use DHCP based dynamic dns on my networks, and use the 'dns proxy =
yes' option to make name requests fall through to DNS when the WINS
lookup fails.  This doesn't work for 'special' names - like domain
master browser, pdc etc - but for normal hostname lookups it works
nicely.

Andrew Bartlett

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