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

[Mathias Gug]

On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 03:42:12PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Oh, but of course using the exact some logic as samba would mean causing a
> recursion in the case of "name resolve order = hosts".  So what's needed
> here is to honor the config file, treating only wins, bcast, and
> (optionally) lmhosts, and do something appropriately default-y if none of
> these are specified.
> 
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