[Samba] Unexpected IP resolution

[Joel Hammer]

Is it host or hosts ? Then, what do you have in /etc/resolv.conf and
/etc/hosts.conf?

Joel
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 08:40:13AM -0400, Richard Prescott wrote:
> hi!
> 
> Sorry in advance if I am not on the right mailing-list and sorry if my
> question is cover somewhere is doc (I didn't find anything).
> 
> The result from nmblookup (same result on all platform) for a given
> samba server isn't what I expect.
> 
> The key part of my smb.conf is: 
> [global]
>         netbios name = ourserver2
>         netbios aliases = ourserverdev ourserverlab ourserver
>         name resolve order = hosts bcast
> 
> And the key part of my /etc/hosts is:
> 
> 10.10.10.1             ourserver1
> 10.10.10.2             ourserver2
> 10.10.10.10            ourserver
> 10.10.10.11            ourserverdev
> 10.10.10.12            ourserverlab
> 
> (Having it or not in lmhosts doesn't change anything.)
> 
> My hostname is set to ourserver2.
> 
> And the last but not the least is my ifconfig :
> 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 100
>     link/ether 00:99:fc:99:99:fc brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
>     inet 10.10.10.2/24 brd 10.10.10.255 scope global eth0
>     inet 10.10.10.10/24 brd 10.10.10.255 scope global secondary eth0:1
>     inet 10.10.10.11/24 brd 10.10.10.255 scope global secondary eth0:2
>     inet 10.10.10.12/24 brd 10.10.10.255 scope global secondary eth0:3
> 
> On whatever machine I run a nmblookup, I get :
> $ nmblookup ourserver2
> querying ourserver2 on 10.10.10.255
> 10.10.10.12 ourserver2<00>
> $ nmblookup ourserverdev
> querying ourserverdev on 10.10.10.255
> 10.10.10.12 ourserverdev<00>
> $ nmblookup ourserverlab
> querying ourserverlab on 10.10.10.255
> 10.10.10.12 ourserverlab<00>
> 
> It is the stock samba server (with updates) coming with Redhat 9 :
> $ rpm -q samba
> samba-2.2.7a-8.9.0
> 
> A tcpdump/ethereal show me that it is really 10.10.10.2 that answers me.
> 
> Is it normal that I get 10.10.10.12 for every machine ?  How comes ?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
> 
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