non routable ips can't connect when the internet line is down

[Samuel Liddicott]

Add reverse lookup.  Its usually a good idea anyway.

Sam

> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-ntdom at samba.org [mailto:samba-ntdom at samba.org]On Behalf Of
> Jan van Rensburg
> Sent: 22 June 1999 13:50
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: non routable ips can't connect when the internet line is down
> 
> 
> hi, 
> i don't know if this is samba PDC related, so please excuse me if 
> it's not.
> we're running samba 2.0.4 and every time our internet line goes 
> down clients
> that have non-routable ips can't connect to the samba server. the 
> non routable
> ips doesn't have any reverse lookup (DNS) addresses. the moment 
> the internet
> line comes up again everything is fine again.
> 
> our network setup looks something like this:
> 
> 
> [network with samba
> server]---------firewall-------router-----------------internet
> 			               |
> 				       |
> 				[non routable ips]
> 
> i've made sure that the firewall does let the packets through, 
> even when the
> lines goes down. here is an extract from the logs of one non-routable ip
> computer (win95):
> 
> 
> [1999/06/22 08:35:35, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_data(415)
>   write_data: write failure. Error = Broken pipe                  
>               
> [1999/06/22 08:35:35, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_socket(191)
>   write_socket: Error writing 4 bytes to socket 6: ERRNO = Broken pipe
> [1999/06/22 08:35:35, 0]
> lib/util_sock.c:send_smb(606)                            
> Error writing 4 bytes to client. -1. Exiting
> [1999/06/22 09:59:57, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_data(415)
>   write_data: write failure. Error = Broken pipe                  
>               
> [1999/06/22 09:59:57, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_socket(191)
>   write_socket: Error writing 4 bytes to socket 6: ERRNO = Broken pipe
> [1999/06/22 09:59:57, 0] lib/util_sock.c:send_smb(606)
>   Error writing 4 bytes to client. -1. Exiting
> [1999/06/22 10:00:02, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_data(415)
>   write_data: write failure. Error = Broken pipe
> [1999/06/22 10:00:02, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_socket(191)
>   write_socket: Error writing 4 bytes to socket 6: ERRNO = Broken pipe
> [1999/06/22 10:00:02, 0] lib/util_sock.c:send_smb(606)
>   Error writing 4 bytes to client. -1. Exiting                   
> 
> we have another site with the same setup that has exactly the 
> same behaviour, so
> the problems is definitley reproducable.
> 
> thank you,
> 
> -- jan van rensburg
> 
> When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if
> I had any firearms with me.  I said, "Well, what do you need?"
> 		-- Steven Wright
>