From 89c3447c7f98a00f0b503732e4abfb5d7c84ccd0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gerald Carter Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 18:34:31 +0000 Subject: being a responsible developer for a change. Make sure to update the docs wrt to the recent code changes. Can someone regenerate these in the SAMBA_3_0 tree please? Thanks. (This used to be commit ba448e6eb866d70daf5fe629c0f1c8c5afb1d312) --- docs/docbook/smbdotconf/protocol/nameresolveorder.xml | 16 +++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs/docbook/smbdotconf/protocol/nameresolveorder.xml') diff --git a/docs/docbook/smbdotconf/protocol/nameresolveorder.xml b/docs/docbook/smbdotconf/protocol/nameresolveorder.xml index c029dcd181..777fc2268e 100644 --- a/docs/docbook/smbdotconf/protocol/nameresolveorder.xml +++ b/docs/docbook/smbdotconf/protocol/nameresolveorder.xml @@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ This option is used by the programs in the Samba suite to determine what naming services to use and in what order - to resolve host names to IP addresses. The option takes a space + to resolve host names to IP addresses. Its main purpose to is to + control how netbios name resolution is performed. The option takes a space separated string of name resolution options. The options are: "lmhosts", "host", @@ -16,7 +17,8 @@ lmhosts : Lookup an IP address in the Samba lmhosts file. If the line in lmhosts has - no name type attached to the NetBIOS name (see the lmhosts(5) for details) then + no name type attached to the NetBIOS name (see the lmhosts(5) for details) then any name type matches for lookup. @@ -26,9 +28,10 @@ , NIS, or DNS lookups. This method of name resolution is operating system depended for instance on IRIX or Solaris this may be controlled by the /etc/nsswitch.conf - file. Note that this method is only used if the NetBIOS name - type being queried is the 0x20 (server) name type, otherwise - it is ignored. + file. Note that this method is used only if the NetBIOS name + type being queried is the 0x20 (server) name type or 0x1c (domain controllers). + The latter case is only useful for active directory domains and results in a DNS + query for the SRV RR entry matching _ldap._tcp.domain. @@ -59,6 +62,9 @@ it is advised to use following settings for name resolve order: name resolve order = wins bcast + + DC lookups will still be done via DNS, but fallbacks to netbios names will + not inundate your DNS servers with needless querys for DOMAIN<0x1c> lookups. -- cgit