On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 10:51:06AM -0600, Brady Hegberg wrote:
> "To allow for interoperability between DNS and WINS, a new resource
> record was defined as part of the Windows NT DNS implementation. This
> record is called a WINS lookup record, and can only be a part of the
> zone root domain. Any queries that cannot be resolved by the static
> entries in the DNS zone file will be forwarded to the WINS server (or
> servers), defined by the WINS lookup record."
There really is no need for a WINS lookup record. I'm going to assume
that it's similar to a mail MX record in that it tells the client where
to go to register for WINS name resolution. You can specify the WINS
server statically in your per client configuration, or dynamically
through your DHCP server. For the standard dhcpd shipped w/most Linux
distributions, it's as simple as setting the following config line for
the subset (See also dhcp-options(5)):
netbios-name-servers ip-address [, ip-address] ;
netbios-dd-servers ip-address [, ip-address] ;
netbios-node-type node-type ;
netbios-scope scope-string ;
Possible node types are:
1 B-node: Broadcast - no WINS
2 P-node: Peer - WINS only.
4 M-node: Mixed - broadcast, then WINS
8 H-node: Hybrid - WINS, then broadcast
If you'd like to dynamically assign DNS lookups by the requested name of
a DHCP client, you can use a dynamic DNS setup. On Debian, the package
is called 'dhcp-dns'.
Package: dhcp-dns
Priority: optional
Section: net
Installed-Size: 43
Maintainer: Craig Sanders <cas at taz.net.au>
Architecture: i386
Version: 0.50-3
Depends: bind, perl | perl5, dhcp
Filename: dists/potato/main/binary-i386/net/dhcp-dns_0.50-3.deb
Size: 10088
MD5sum: 5ce6a3e74ad159660e887a5b4d7cf1ab
Description: Dynamic DNS updates for DHCP
dhcp-dns uses bind 8's dynamic update features to update a zonefile
with hostnames from the dhcp leases file.
--
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