samba - Mar 2002 - windbindd for resolving addresses on the firewall in a split DNS scenario

I have a firewall that does not support WINS lookup to resolve
names of windows users behind the firewall on the trusted net.
Question: Has anyone set up a split DNS where the firewall
resolves to a Linux box with winbindd and bind in the trusted
portion of the network? So that
when the firewall wants to do a reverse lookup of
10.10.90.55 the query will return "\\DOMAIN\Blade Runner/10.10.90.55"
I am assuming this would be slow until cache is
built up.

Thank you,
Raymond
PS: Looking at the samba info page it appears one can ask
a question without subscribing so if I have breached
list etiquette forgive me.

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Winbind is not a name resolver.  It is a daemon that caches user and group
accounts from a WinNT/2K server and then these accounts can be used for
authentication on the Samba server.

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Brian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Raymond Jacob" <jacob_raymond@hotmail.com>
To: <samba@lists.samba.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 12:29 AM
Subject: [Samba] windbindd for resolving addresses on the firewall in a
split DNS scenario

> I have a firewall that does not support WINS lookup to resolve
> names of windows users behind the firewall on the trusted net.
> Question: Has anyone set up a split DNS where the firewall
> resolves to a Linux box with winbindd and bind in the trusted
> portion of the network? So that
> when the firewall wants to do a reverse lookup of
> 10.10.90.55 the query will return "\\DOMAIN\Blade
Runner/10.10.90.55"
> I am assuming this would be slow until cache is
> built up.
>
> Thank you,
> Raymond
> PS: Looking at the samba info page it appears one can ask
> a question without subscribing so if I have breached
> list etiquette forgive me.
>
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