[Samba] nmblookup -A accepts groupname

[Martin MOKREJŠ]

Hi,
  I'm using samba-2.2.5 and I found, when user executed mistakenly
"nmblookup -A GROUPNAME" instead of "nmblookup -A HOSTNAME", he receives
same result as "nmblookup -A localhost", but with 0.0.0.0 as an ip
address:

$ nmblookup -A KNIHOVNA-CH
Looking up status of 0.0.0.0
        PF-I400         <00> -         B <ACTIVE>
        PF-I400         <03> -         B <ACTIVE>
        PF-I400         <20> -         B <ACTIVE>
        ..__MSBROWSE__. <01> - <GROUP> B <ACTIVE>
        OCHEM           <00> - <GROUP> B <ACTIVE>
        OCHEM           <1d> -         B <ACTIVE>
        OCHEM           <1e> - <GROUP> B <ACTIVE>

$ nmblookup -A KNIH-CH6
Looking up status of 195.113.59.107
        KNIH-CH6        <00> -         M <ACTIVE>
        KNIHOVNA-CH     <00> - <GROUP> M <ACTIVE>
        KNIH-CH6        <20> -         M <ACTIVE>
        KNIHOVNA-CH     <1e> - <GROUP> M <ACTIVE>
        KNIHOVNA-CH     <1d> -         M <ACTIVE>
        ..__MSBROWSE__. <01> - <GROUP> M <ACTIVE>
        KNIH-CH6        <03> -         M <ACTIVE>
        ASPI            <03> -         M <ACTIVE>

$ nmblookup -A localhost
Looking up status of 127.0.0.1
        PF-I400         <00> -         B <ACTIVE>
        PF-I400         <03> -         B <ACTIVE>
        PF-I400         <20> -         B <ACTIVE>
        ..__MSBROWSE__. <01> - <GROUP> B <ACTIVE>
        OCHEM           <00> - <GROUP> B <ACTIVE>
        OCHEM           <1d> -         B <ACTIVE>
        OCHEM           <1e> - <GROUP> B <ACTIVE>

$


Is this a bug or feature?


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