[COLUG] Samba weirdness

[Rob Funk]

Bill Baker wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 13:27 -0500, Rob Funk wrote:
> > Bill Baker wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 11:55 -0500, Rob Funk wrote:
> > > > Where is that IP address coming from??
> > >
> > > OpenDNS.
> >
> > If that case you should probably change your local domain to one that
> > isn't in OpenDNS.
>
> I think the problem was that it was querying OpenDNS for the names of
> the computers in my workgroup.  I don't have a local domain set up on
> my network.

Yes you do.  Your system is treating ".localdomain" as your local DNS 
domain.  Check /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/hosts.  I believe that's long 
been a Red Hat (and therefore Fedora) default.

What you want ideally is for the query of OpenDNS to fail because your 
domain doesn't exist there.  (Or better, to use a domain that you are the 
recognized owner of.)  With mainstream DNS that's easy because the 
existing top-level domains are well-defined and well-known (though 
somewhat less so since the advent of .museum and its ilk).  With 
alternate DNS it's harder to know what top-level domains already exist.

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