Re (10th): DNS lookup failure on Linksys router

I have just configured SAMBA (it was next on my list) and it is not 
resolving the names for me.

>Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 10:42:56 -0600
>From: "Gregory L. Hering" <[email protected]>
>Subj\ect: Re: Re (8th): DNS lookup failure on Linksys router
>To: <[email protected]>
>Cc: Randy Kelsoe <[email protected]>
>Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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>>>>> but usually the server will give the same address to a particular
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>machine.
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>>>Not necessarily true, but it can be setup to give the same IP to a certain
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>MAC address.
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>I know about setting up the DHCP config files for hard MAC-to-IP addressing,
>but I still have seen very consistent addresses on completely dynamic
>networks.  I think it's probably due to the algorithm used by the DHPC
>server to pick the address in the first place, maybe a hash of some kind.
>
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>>>>>  BTW, if someone would like to volunteer how the Windows boxes
>>>>> are getting the name info of the Linux box I would love to hear it
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>>> I can tell you, but don't believe me because I am not in my right mind.
>>> If the linux machine is running samba and samba is setup for the same
>>>workgroup, netbios does this (when you start smb, it also starts nmbd).
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>I think that's a very good answer, Randy.  Netbios broadcasts names along
>with other machine information.  I wish I'd have thought of that! :o)
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