DNS wildcards (was: Re: problems with samba 3)

[Paul Iadonisi]

On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 15:28, Michal Jaegermann wrote:

[snip]

> A solution turned out to be to explictitely declare a name
> resolution order to 'winbind lmhosts ....', or whatever that is
> called, in smb.conf.  I do not have Samba here so I cannot check
> that directive but it is mentioned explicitely in one of 'BROWSING'
> documents.

  If your customer has control of his DNS server and it's running bind,
then the delegation-only patch can be applied and then he can list all
the gTLDs /etc/named.conf.  There may be patches for other DNS servers
as well.
  I applied the patch at www.isc.org and am now happily seeing the
normal, non-Verisign corrupted dns behavior.  (The version in rawhide is
actually a bit outdated.  It's 9.2.2-P1 and ISC recommends 9.2.2-P3.) 
At least until they circumvent it some other way.  *sigh*


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