[COLUG] Samba weirdness

[Bill Baker]

On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 15:38 -0500, Rob Funk wrote:
> 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.
> 

So what are you saying I should do, then?

> Are you confusing the DNS concept of Domain with the Windows Active 
> Directory concept of Domain?  This has nothing to do with Active 
> Directory.

Probably.  I'm studying for my MCSA, so I kind of have that on the
brain. :)