Alternatively, you could just set up your local DNS server to answer
authoritative for the 1.1.10.in-addr.arpa domain and put in the host
entries.
-- Nathan
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Nathan Neulinger EMail: nneul@umr.edu
University of Missouri - Rolla Phone: (573) 341-4841
Computing Services Fax: (573) 341-4216
> -----Original Message-----
> From: anoah [mailto:anoah@pfeiffer.edu]
> Sent: Monday, March 15, 1999 11:04 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: samba + dns
>
>
>
> yes, we have several samba servers that are also masquerading
> firewalls. when
> dns stops on the outside, even clients on the inside cant
> login. a loss of
> service is how we determined that our local dns servers were
> doing a reverse
> lookup on the 10.1.1.x subnet.
>
> even though we had local dns servers, they were still going
> out on the net to
> look for those ip addresses hostnames.
>
> the quick fix: i whipped up a little script to put this in my
> etc/hosts
>
> 10.1.2.1 inside1
> 10.1.2.2 inside2
>
> etc. we found that login service was restored, even though
> the names in hosts
> file did not match the netbios names of the clients. all is well now!
>
> note: supposedly, there is a switch in smb.conf to turn off
> dns lookups, but it
> did not work! we use rh 5.x, kern 2.0.36 and 2.2.1, samba
> 2.0.x, win9x clients.
>
> al
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>
>