[Samba] Samba trying to connect to a non-existant DC for NTP?

[Rowland Penny]

On Thu, 15 Feb 2024 16:21:27 -0500
"James B. Byrne via samba" <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Thu Feb 15 19:48:57 UTC 2024 Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org wrote:
> >
> > Is there a firewall blocking this ?
> No.  The BROCKLEY domain is on a internal private network.
> 
> > What is 192.168.18.161 ?
> 192.168.18.161 is the private address assigned to
> SMB4-1.brockley.harte-lyne.ca.
> 
> > Is it
> > aac648b2-aac8-411d-afe0-7cbd5455841c._msdcs.brockley.harte-lyne.ca ?
> Yes:
> ping
> aac648b2-aac8-411d-afe0-7cbd5455841c._msdcs.brockley.harte-lyne.ca
> PING SMB4-1.brockley.harte-lyne.ca (192.168.18.161): 56 data bytes
> ping: sendto: Host is down
> 
> > Do they exist ?.
> No.  SMB4-1 was the original DC name when we were converting from
> CentOS to FreeBSD.  We had numerous difficulties with transferring
> ACLs with rsync as I recall. At some point during the transition
> efforts SMB4-1 became corrupted or unusable in some fashion so the
> conversion target was switched to a new DC SMB4-2.
> 

Then I think that is your problem, whilst SMB4-1 no longer
physically exists,it looks like there are still traces of it in your AD
DNS. You will need to find these and then delete them, just like you
did with the duplicate PDC_Emulator SRV record.

Rowland