[KLUG Members] Samba wins-to-dns

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>Well, judging from the mailling list traffic, it seems they stopped
>handing out dns_update (you can get it from the website) and started
>distributing this:

Ew! "wins hook" + dns_update calling nsupdate (a part of BIND itself) is far
more `live` and elegant than the batch method described (IMHO).  If a user boots
a PC not in DNS and tries to do something before the batch job propogates them
into DNS and thus the servers can't reverse-lookup them; what happens?  And what
takes a PC out od DNS when it is gone?  With "wins hook" if a user shuts down
their PC it is removed from DNS keeping the cruft to a minimum.  What percentage
of DNS entries worlwide indicate hosts the no longer exist?  I'll wager it is
pretty high.