Error writing 4 bytes solution - FAQ issue

[Gerald Carter]

On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Martin Devera wrote:

> It seems that samba resolves client's address into name and when it
> take too long Windows disconnects meanwhile.
> My problems were caused by using samba on private ip range and problems
> started when ISP's nameserver stopped to reverse-resolve there IPs. At
> all my three problematic sites named cured the problem.
> I used reverse maping which has no PTRs for private range so that named
> replies NXDOMAIN - but it is enough: it replies fast.

Yup.  We've removed the majority of the DNS dependencies in the latest CVS
trees so that broken DNS servers don't cause us to fall over.

Thanks Martin.








chau, jerry
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