Re: resolving local area network computers via computer name

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Check what wins service is running on your network, if its a $MS wins
service, you can lock a netbios name to an IP, thus it will never
expire since its not leased on the first place.
Samba also is capable of being a wins server.

For your bind query, http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/DNS-HOWTO.html is a
good place to start.


hth,

Kenneth
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R. Martinez wrote:

> our workstation are running windoze xp, yes we are using Samba to
> access our files. It might be that it's a netbiosname being
> resolved -- I MIGHT BE. How do i 'unexpire' it?
>
> I still have a lot of things to read before I can setup a DNS via
> bind but if you'll show me some code that'll be perfect :)
>
>
> jun
>
> On 11/15/05, *Kenneth Oncinian* <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>

> There are many possibilties, if you happen to run samba on that box
> before, there is a possibility that devserv is the netbios name
> which is being resolved. Another possibility is that a wins service
> is running somewhere on your network, wherein the record of devserv
> is already "expired", thus you can no longer resolve its netbios
> name.
>
> I am a big fan of BIND, if you need local dns service, i strongly
> suggest you to study BIND.
>
>
> hth,
>
> Kenneth P. Oncinian Network Administrator Panasonic Communications
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> Mhac Janapin wrote:
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>> Hi Jun, Are your workstations linux boxes? Mhac
>
>> On 11/15/05, *R. Martinez* <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
>
>> Please enlighten me on this one.
>
>> At the office, we are using linux as our server (dev, staging)
>> and we are able to access it using it's name 'devserv' without us
>> having to edit the our host file in order to map 'devserv' to
>> whatever is the IP address of our server. But today, we can't
>> resolve 'devserv' anymore. Our IP address is server-assigned by
>> our LinkSys DSL router and the assign DNS's (1 & 2) are all
>> public addresses (of our telco provider). Now, how did the
>> hostname-to-IP resolution get through even though I'm sure that
>> our DNS's server did not have any record of our local server's IP
>> address?
>
>> Also, we need to resolve 'devserv' automatically.. what should I
>> do? Newbie on DNS here :)
>
>
>
>> jun
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