[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#462803: mount.cifs not respecting name resolve order

[Michael Marsh]

On Jan 27, 2008 2:10 PM, Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org> wrote:
> mount.cifs doesn't honor smb.conf, yes.  It only resolves hostnames using
> gethostbyname(), and only supports overriding this resolution using an ip=
> mount option.  Presumably this worked for you before only because you were
> using mount.smbfs rather than mount.cifs.

I've been using mount.smbfs, which apparently was recently forcibly
switched to mount.cifs, regardless of how it's specified in
/etc/fstab.

> As for all hostnames being resolved incorrectly by Verizon's DNS servers,
> that's not our problem to fix.  They're the ILEC where I live and I refuse
> to do any business with them because of their incompetence and their
> reprehensible political lobbying; if you choose to deal with an Internet
> provider who spits on Internet standards, you'll have to find your own way
> to overcome the resulting problems.

I can certainly appreciate that this is an error on Verizon's end
(which they have no intentions of correcting), but why force a switch
on users when the new version doesn't respect what the old version
did?  mount.smbfs worked fine, and I could prevent it from talking to
the wider network.  As it is, I now have to hard-code an IP address
that isn't stable (because of DHCP), when SMB has a perfectly good
naming scheme.

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