[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#459972: winbind: want to limit libnss_wins checks to WINS (no broadcasting)

[Matt Swift]

Yes, and as I alluded in mail just sent, a recursion loop seems
possible with "dns proxy=yes" as well, unless that check is not going
to use the NSS layer.

On a related note, you might want to document that you don't actually
have to run windbindd to get the "hosts: wins" NSS service, you just
need to run a WINS server and have /lib/libnss_wins.so (I think).  The
fact that libnss_wins.so installs by default to run winbindd in Debian
suggests that you need to run it for all features described in
winbindd man page (i.e., be good if the winbindd man page said you
don't have to run winbindd to get the NSS functionality, even though
it's the winbindd man page that's documenting it).

>> On Wed Jan  9 18:42:12 2008 -0500, Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org> wrote:

    S> On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 02:44:00PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
    >> Just to confirm, are you saying that setting "name resolve order = wins" in
    >> /etc/samba/smb.conf does not fix this timeout problem for you?

    >> I don't think it makes sense to have nss_wins exposing different behavior to
    >> the system than is used by Samba itself; but if it's not respecting the
    >> smb.conf values, that's certainly a bug to be fixed IMHO.

    S> Oh, but of course using the exact some logic as samba would mean causing a
    S> recursion in the case of "name resolve order = hosts".  So what's needed
    S> here is to honor the config file, treating only wins, bcast, and
    S> (optionally) lmhosts, and do something appropriately default-y if none of
    S> these are specified.