Re: dnsmasq problems

[Nic Strong <nic_s@ihug.co.nz>]

On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 21:39, Joao Pedro Clemente wrote:
> > Anyone have any idea why the xp boxes can't resolve these ?
> 
> Can you give an example?
> There is a difference between win/Linux name resolving, that is most
> visible when using internal network resolution, in particular the ones
> without a domainname:
> 
> ping "mymachine" in Linux tries to do a dns name lookup of "mymachine"
> ping "mymachine"  in Win tries to do a SMB name lookup <<<!!!!
> ping "mymachine." in Win tries to do a dsn name lookup
> 
> if you don' use a domainname maybe you're simply facing this Windows
> "feature"...

I was using ping "mymachine" so I guess I was seeing the windows
feature :-)

I needed to install samba anyway so now the smb look works as well.

Thanks for that.


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Nic Strong <nic_s@ihug.co.nz>