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accept an extended syntax for 'wins server' like this: wins server = group1:192.168.2.10 group2:192.168.3.99 group1:192.168.0.1 The tags before the IPs don't mean anything, they are just a way of grouping IPs together. If you use the old syntax (ie. no ':') then an implicit group name of '*' is used. In general I'd recommend people use interface names for the group names, but it doesn't matter much. When we register in nmbd we try to register all our IPs with each group of WINS servers. We keep trying until all of them are registered with every group, falling back to the failover WINS servers for each group as we go. When we do a WINS lookup we try each of the WINS servers for each group. If a WINS server for a group gives a negative answer then we give up on that group and move to the next group. If it times out then we move to the next failover wins server in the group. In either case, if a WINS server doesn't respond then we mark it dead for 10 minutes, to prevent lengthy waits for dead servers. (This used to be commit e125f06058b6b51382cf046b1dbb30728b8aeda5)
This extension provides a "wins" module for NSS on glibc2/Linux. This allows you to use a WINS entry in /etc/nsswitch.conf for hostname resolution, allowing you to resolve netbios names via start unix gethostbyname() calls. The end result is that you can use netbios names as host names in unix apps. 1) run configure 2) run "make nsswitch" 3) cp nsswitch/libnss_wins.so /lib/libnss_wins.so.2 4) add a wins entry to the hosts line in /etc/nsswitch.conf 5) use it tridge@linuxcare.com