Re: name resolve order

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton (lkcl@switchboard.net)
Tue, 17 Mar 1998 19:05:32 +0000 (GMT)

Date:	Tue, 17 Mar 1998 19:05:32 +0000 (GMT)
From:	Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@switchboard.net>
To:	Multiple recipients of list <samba-technical@samba.anu.edu.au>, Jeremy Allison <jallison@whistle.com>
Subject: Re: name resolve order
In-Reply-To: <350EB0D0.6EEA4806@whistle.com>

On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Jeremy Allison wrote:

> Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> >
> > hooray. this is a long time in arriving: brilliant. are you planning to
> > add "dns" too?
> >
>
> Luke, we don't need dns - the 'host' key will do that
> if the underlying host has been configured to do dns
> lookups. 'host' means just call gethostbyname(), which
> will do dns lookups itself if it's been configured
> that way.

right. got it. this is good.

> We don't need (want) dns resolver code in Samba (IMHO :-).

(yuck). no, not now, given that asyncdns.c does a good job where it's
needed (in nmbd).

luke