[Samba] Active Directory one Client with multiple IP addresses

Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org
Fri Feb 22 08:06:27 UTC 2019


On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 16:59:21 -0600
Brian Davis via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Is is possible to assign one name to a client, but have multiple ip
> addresses (3 or more) say for a laptop that can be connected by
> wireless, hardline on laptop, or hard-line on docking station where
> DHCP server issues multiple ip addresses for each connection which
> could be used simultaneously or individually?
> 
> and have nslookup yield the one of the working/connected ip address
> or say first working if only 1 is connected?

What you are asking for is the reverse of CNAME's and I don't think you
can. This isn't an Active Directory restriction, it is a DNS
restriction.

Rowland



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