Bug#591752: [Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#591752: samba-common: please change the name resolv order

2010-08-06 Thread Volker Lendecke
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 02:27:57PM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: Please don't get me wrong, I know this is absolutely not samba's but our ISP's fault. But by internet research I found quite a lot of people with similar problems and would thus like to propose a general resolution for this

Bug#591752: [Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#591752: samba-common: please change the name resolv order

2010-08-06 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Hi Volker, Am 06.08.2010 12:03, schrieb Volker Lendecke: The reason why we do it this way is the additional timeout we would run into. More and more networks have DNS configured these days, and if we put broadcast before DNS, we would run into a timeout before we tried DNS every single time. A

Bug#591752: [Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#591752: samba-common: please change the name resolv order

2010-08-06 Thread Volker Lendecke
On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 01:48:05PM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: That's a good question. How does Windows handle this, by the way? No idea. I know broken DNS redirects are very popular with home DSL connects, but there is probably not much that Samba can do about that. It's just an

Bug#591752: [Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#591752: samba-common: please change the name resolv order

2010-08-06 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 06.08.2010 14:12, schrieb Volker Lendecke: It is changeable from the outside. See the smb.conf file. If you want it programmatic, do it via the registry configuration. Or do you mean libsmbclient must offer an API? You can alway deliver an IP address to libsmbclient and implement the name

Bug#591752: [Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#591752: samba-common: please change the name resolv order

2010-08-06 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 06.08.2010 15:08, schrieb Volker Lendecke: So what you want is a function smbc_setOptionNameResolveOrder, right? Exact! - Fabian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#591752: [Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#591752: samba-common: please change the name resolv order

2010-08-06 Thread Volker Lendecke
On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 03:12:07PM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: Am 06.08.2010 15:08, schrieb Volker Lendecke: So what you want is a function smbc_setOptionNameResolveOrder, right? Exact! There's three ways to get that now: * Submit a patch * Enter a bug report as enhancement and wait

Bug#591752: [Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#591752: samba-common: please change the name resolv order

2010-08-06 Thread Volker Lendecke
On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 02:58:40PM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: OK, I am a bit puzzled now. Yes, I think libsmbclient should provide an API to allow for changing the name resolv order from the outside. Furthermore, I have no idea what registry configuration means in this context. Since

Bug#591752: [Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#591752: samba-common: please change the name resolv order

2010-08-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 12:03:02PM +0200, Volker Lendecke wrote: On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 02:27:57PM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: Please don't get me wrong, I know this is absolutely not samba's but our ISP's fault. But by internet research I found quite a lot of people with similar

Bug#591752: [Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#591752: samba-common: please change the name resolv order

2010-08-05 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Dear samba-developers, on request of Christian PERRIER of Debian's pkg-samba-maint team, I contact you about an issue that I initially filed to the Debian Bug Tracking System [1]. Please find a transcript of my original request below: ---8--- Dear samba-maintainers, I'd like to give some

Bug#591752: [Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#591752: samba-common: please change the name resolv order

2010-08-05 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Fabian Greffrath (fab...@greffrath.com): I do not know upstream's opinion on this, i.e. if this would be considered a Debian-specific deviation, but at least in the smb.conf(5) manpage I found my proposed name resolv order among the examples. However, please consider changing this