Tim wrote: > On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 12:22 -0500, Jeff Vian wrote: >> A Windows machine can get any hostname that is on the WINS server >> without using DNS. > > Can it do that for anything, or only as a side effect of a prior action. > > e.g. If you ping "machinename" (an unimaginative example hostname), and > nothing else has had any traffic with "machinename", will it work? Or > would you have had to do something with SMB beforehand, and Windows had > cached the address? > You may want to take a look at http://www.zeroconf.org/ for general coverage of the problem. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
