Dear Samba developers, Sometime between versions 2.2.2 and 2.2.7 you made the change:
% diff samba-2.2.2/source/smbd/session.c samba-2.2.7/source/smbd/session.c 92,94c92,97 < hostname = client_name(); < if (strequal(hostname,"UNKNOWN")) < hostname = client_addr(); --- > /* Don't resolve the hostname in smbd as we can pause for a long > time while waiting for DNS timeouts to occur. The correct > place to do this is in the code that displays the session > information. */ > > hostname = client_addr(); This causes utmp entries to be written with the IP address instead of the hostname. This is ugly, so I reverted to the pre-2.2.7 version. I disagree that DNS lookups are an issue. You use hostnames at least for log file names and for "hosts allow" lookups. The fashion lately is to put tcp-wrappers around all remote services: does not samba deserve the same? Sure, avoid repeated lookups (by saving the name upon first lookup); even implement short timeouts if really needed (but really, just refuse if the forward/reverse lookups do not "work"). Thanks for this very useful software! Paul Szabo - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au:8000/u/psz/ School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney 2006 Australia -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
