Re: name resolve order

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton (lkcl@switchboard.net)
Tue, 17 Mar 1998 11:12:55 +0000 (GMT)

Date:	Tue, 17 Mar 1998 11:12:55 +0000 (GMT)
From:	Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@switchboard.net>
To:	Jeremy Allison <jallison@whistle.com>
Subject: Re: name resolve order
In-Reply-To: <350D9174.2C67412E@whistle.com>

On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Jeremy Allison wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> John (T) finally bugged me enough to add a feature
> he's wanted for a long time (I foolishly told him it
> would take an hour to add..... ha ! :-).
>
> We now have the capability to dynamically change
> how names are resolved in smbclient, smbd and nmbd
> (not that it's really used in nmbd).
>
> The new parameter "name resolve order" acts like
> a nsswitch.conf file and will take the following
> keys :
>
> lmhosts, host, wins, bcast in any order and will
> then use the specified naming services to lookup
> host names (this is most useful in smbclient).

hooray. this is a long time in arriving: brilliant. are you planning to
add "dns" too?

luke