Sorting list of DC addresses by closest first
Richard Sharpe
rsharpe at richardsharpe.com
Wed Apr 21 15:25:32 GMT 2004
On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 11:05:13PM -0700, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> :
> > Hmmm, nmblookup on sasafras#1c returns the following:
> >
> > Got a positive name query response from 172.17.132.16 ( 172.17.132.16
> > 172.17.1.113 172.17.65.15 172.17.1.50 172.17.3.129 )
> > 172.17.132.16 sasafras<1c>
> > 172.17.1.113 sasafras<1c>
> > 172.17.65.15 sasafras<1c>
> > 172.17.1.50 sasafras<1c>
> > 172.17.3.129 sasafras<1c>
> >
> > The funny thing is that 127.17.132.16, which is not the PDC, just a BDC,
> > is closest to me.
> >
> > This seems to be contrary to what you said.
>
> Odd.
>
> I can look up the doco that says that the PDC should be first. I was
> pretty sure we followed Microsoft's lead.
>
> There's not much info in the message above, however. What was the command
> line? I assume that 172.17.132.16 is the NBNS.
nmblookup -R -A 172.17.132.16 -S sasafras#1c
Yes, 172.17.132.16 is the local NBNS.
Regards
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