[Samba] DNS->Wins proxy?

[Elver Loho]

Hi.

Some of my friends like to drag their computers to my place for LAN parties 
sometimes and I've set up a DHCP server on my Linux gateway for easy 
configuration. When someone sets up a game server on their computer, we still 
have to resort to broadcasting via the voice-over-air protocol to get the IP 
to everyone. Today I set up a WINS server with Samba on my Linux gateway and 
all of my Windows-running computers now belong to the same Samba-managed 
workgroup and can resolve by name.

The problem is that my non-Windows-running computers would also like the 
ability to resolve NetBIOS names to IPs. Is there a DNS server out there that 
can resolve via Samba's WINS server first and if it's not found, resort to 
acting as a normal caching nameserver or simply route the request to some 
other name servers? Basically, what I'm looking for is a DNS-to-WINS/DNS 
proxy. Does such a thing exist?


Elver