samba - Dec 2000 - reverse name lookup

Is there away to disable reverse name lookup of hostname/ipaddr
within samba?

There seems to be some issue with dynamic dns not being
reversable on our network for some ips for dialing connections
and dhcp leases.

I've gotten a reply indicating, that sometimes the Broken Pipe
problems I'm seeing reguarlly can be caused by the samba
server not being able to reverse lookup a host.

If seen similar problems with NIS, where the NIS and DNS
resolution do not match so a warning/error is logged. So I'm
now using DNS, since it's the most accurate in our network
infrastructure -- but I seem to continue to have periods of
time when samba doesn't want allow connections. I'm working
with our network staff to monitor this problem -- but I
think disabling reverse look ups would help.



-- 
Errol Casey, Nortel - Nortel Networks, RTP, NC
ECAD Tool Specialist
External (919) 991-7064 Internal ESN 351-7064
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email: errol_casey@nortelnetworks.com

Old message, but here's some information for you...

Errol Casey wrote:
> 
> Is there away to disable reverse name lookup of 
> hostname/ipaddr within samba?
The reverse lookups are related to a hosts allow/deny entry
in smb.conf.  See the call to get_socket_name() call in 
check_access() function.






Cheers, jerry
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