[Samba] not able to do dns lookups after following samba 3 by example

[Vincent Yonemitsu]

tit for tat I would guess. Samba did in fact work perfectly fine without
DNS as did all the other machines....well accept I wasn't able to
donwload patches from redhat or finish reading the article I was using
on the web to do the tutorial to configure the machine without dns. :)

I little more clear of a disclaimer for us trolls would be helpful is
all I meant. :) Other than that the doc is wonderfully written.

On May 12, 2005 04:04 PM, Paul Gienger <pgienger at ae-solutions.com>
wrote:

>
>
> John H Terpstra wrote:
>
> >On Thursday 12 May 2005 13:43, Paul Gienger wrote:
> >
> >
> >>> 1.
> >>>
> >>> Configure the name service switch (NSS) to handle WINS based
> >>> name resolution. Since this system does not use a DNS server, it
> >>> is safe to remove this option from the NSS configuration. Edit
> >>> the /etc/nsswitch.conf file so that the hosts: entry looks like
> >>> this:
> >>>
> >>>hosts: files wins
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Given the context of that statement... there's nothing wrong with
> >>removing dns from the line. HOWEVER - and this is a big one - I feel
> >>pretty confidant that I can count on my fist how many times I'll
> >>ever
> >>run into a system that will be happy running with no dns.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >And I can not count the number of systems I have installed that work
> >just fine
> >without any DNS or internet access. Why should it be necessary to
> >install DNS
> >for a 5 user office that uses no internet access and that wants to
> >keep
> >things simple?
> >
> >
> Well then I just showed my age ;) No office (or non-office) network*
> I've been at has not used some sort of dns, if not internal, then the
> server still wanted to be able to find some external site via the
> ISP's
> dns. I come from a time where the internet not existing is just not
> within the realm of possibilities, I'd go as far as to claim blasphemy
> if someone mentions it :-D
>
> *a network being 2+ computers. Plenty of my elder family members have
> single dial up machines that do just fine without DNS when the modem
> is
> unplugged.
>
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Vincent Yonemitsu
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