[Samba] Re: DNS Proxy - WINS problem - please help

Terry Davis tdavis at approbation.org
Tue Jun 11 14:16:04 GMT 2002


Another note, DNS directly from the client to my dns servers works
fine.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 12:04, Terry Davis wrote:
> Here is my scenario when a client wants to resolve a name on my local
> network:
> 
> CLIENT --> VPN --> SAMBA --> DNS
> 
> The client is set up like so:
> DNS1 = ISP DNS1 (204.26.64.1)
> DNS2 = ISP DNS2 (204.26.80.3)
> WINS1 = my samba1 (10.10.1.5)
> WINS2 = my samba2 (10.10.1.8)
> 
> This all _seemed_ to have worked 3 days ago for roughly 6 months but
> stopped suddenly without me doing anything.
> 
> When the client requests a name on my local network like atlas
> (10.10.1.8), there is no resolution at all.
> 
> My first reaction was there was a firewall change or something, but that
> is not the case.
> 
> 
> 1) How can I see if requests are getting to the samba server for dns
> queries?
> 
> 2) Is my thinking correct about DNS proxy?
> 
> 
> Here is the relevant parts of my smb.conf:
> 
> wins support = yes
> wins proxy = no
> dns proxy = yes
> 
> Thank you for your help!
> 
> -- 
> Terry Davis
> http://approbation.org/
-- 
Terry Davis
http://approbation.org/





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