[COLUG] Re: Lan hostname to IP resolution

[Jeff McCune]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Jeffrey Tadlock <jeffrey at tadlocks.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 7:48 AM, Rob Funk <rfunk at funknet.net> wrote:
>  >  At least in Debian/Ubuntu, the winbind package includes the library
>  >  (libnss_wins.so) for adding "wins" to the hosts line in nsswitch.conf.
>
>  Ah, centos gets libnss_wins.so and the winbind bits in the samba-common package.
>
>  ~Jeffrey

It may be an exercise in futility, but there's also Multicast DNS.  I
haven't been following the thread terribly closely, so apologies if
this was already mentioned.

-Jeff