Multi-WINS behavior.
Christopher R. Hertel
crh at nts.umn.edu
Wed Jul 19 05:12:56 GMT 2000
Dear WINS fans,
This is a quick status report on the WINS failover code:
- I wrote a new module called wins_srv.c, and then rewrote it again after
I thought about it a bit. Ah, well...
- There are three key functions:
wins_srv_load_list()
- This function parses a string of IP addresses and DNS names and
loads the results into a linked list.
wins_srv_ip()
- This function returns the (struct in_addr) IP address of the first
'live' WINS server.
wins_srv_died()
- Used to indicate that a WINS server has died. This should be called
whenever no response at all is given by a WINS server.
wins_srv_count()
- Lists the number of entries in the failover list.
Some quick notes:
- If the WINS server was entered as a DNS name in smb.conf, then a name
lookup was being performed every time a WINS query or registration was
performed. Ick. What I do instead is to cache the IP address once it's
found. If the WINS server is marked 'dead', then I clear the IP address
and look it up again when the WINS server is alive again. A failed
lookup kills the entry, so the code won't repeat the lookup for another
ten minutes.
- If smb.conf is re-read then the list is reset and things start all over
again. The wins_srv list should not be out of sync with
lp_wins_server().
- The functions above are implemented, but not yet fully integrated with
the the rest of the code. There are...issues. Some of the nmbd
processing relies on a namelist called the "unicast" list. I think that
I might have to update this list whenever a WINS server is marked dead,
but I'm not sure yet.
- I know how to do multi-membership (the ability to register with and
query multiple WINS server sets), but there are a lot issues to be
worked out regarding the rest of the code. This will need some thought.
Chris -)-----
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