I learned a lesson about PDCs

Belisarius · 06-10-2005, 06:06 PM

Don't give them the name "localhost". The clients don't like it.

I'm not sure how it happened, but my Samba server got the hostname "localhost" - must have happened when I was messing around with DNS. Oddly enough my clients got confused when I tried to browse to "localhost".

Kernel_Killer · 06-10-2005, 09:11 PM

Yeah, having every system map to 127.0.0.1 isn't the best way to resolve addresses. Probably fun to watch in a network monitor though.

jeffro · 06-11-2005, 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Belisarius

Don't give them the name "localhost". The clients don't like it.

I'm not sure how it happened, but my Samba server got the hostname "localhost" - must have happened when I was messing around with DNS. Oddly enough my clients got confused when I tried to browse to "localhost".

I am sure it caused all sorts of mayhem, thanks for the advice.