Bug 3798
Summary: | Pump update doesn't do the trick | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | mapimapi |
Component: | pump | Assignee: | Erik Troan <ewt> |
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 6.0 | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
Last Closed: | 2000-02-03 16:53:14 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
mapimapi
1999-06-29 12:17:01 UTC
Kevin, Your question begs the question how does a Windows NT/98/95 computer find other computers on the network? As you basically know DNS provides the ability of a central server to map host names to IP Addresses. What you have not realized is that this is not the only method that NT/98/95 uses to locate other computers. The alternate for these computers is to use WINS to find the target computer. When NT/98/95 does not get a valid response to the computer name it is requesting from DNS, it then tries WINS and then a lookup in the LMHOSTS files (Windows NT - C:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\lmhosts). If you want your computer to be automatically found when it comes up, then turn on and install samba (which is somewhat of an exercise in itself). This will enable the nmbd daemon which will broadcast the IP address of the computer to the network to the current WINS master. Unfortunately pump does not modify the hosts table to indicate the local host name IP address. So this solution is does not work too well. How about this as a defect? That the pump daemon does not update the hosts table to indicate the host IP address? |