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add the 5 missing chapters from the HOWTO
and add jht's Samba by Example book.
(This used to be commit 9fb5bcb93e)
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XML
25 lines
988 B
XML
<samba:parameter name="dns proxy"
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context="G"
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type="boolean"
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advanced="1" developer="1"
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xmlns:samba="http://samba.org/common">
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<description>
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<para>Specifies that <citerefentry><refentrytitle>nmbd</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry> when acting as a WINS server and
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finding that a NetBIOS name has not been registered, should treat the
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NetBIOS name word-for-word as a DNS name and do a lookup with the DNS server
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for that name on behalf of the name-querying client.</para>
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<para>Note that the maximum length for a NetBIOS name is 15
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characters, so the DNS name (or DNS alias) can likewise only be
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15 characters, maximum.</para>
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<para><command moreinfo="none">nmbd</command> spawns a second copy of itself to do the
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DNS name lookup requests, as doing a name lookup is a blocking
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action.</para>
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</description>
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<related>wins support</related>
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<value type="default">yes</value>
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</samba:parameter>
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