Sorting list of DC addresses by closest first

[Jeremy Allison]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 07:53:42PM -0700, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We are having a problem with our internal infrastructure and our attempts 
> to move to using Samba on our NAS to host internal CIFS usage.
> 
> We have offices in TX, PA, and CA, with DCs in each of those offices. The 
> PDC is in TX.
> 
> When we first tried to cut over to using Samba member servers, all 
> authentication traffic was going to TX, even in that from PA and CA.
> 
> It seems to me that when get_dc_list is called, the list should be sorted 
> with those addresses that are in the same subnets as the member server 
> first on the list (perhaps permuted each time if there is more than one) 
> and the remaining addresses next on the list, perhaps again permuted as 
> they are used.
> 
> Has anyone thought of the need for this behavior? 

Can you log a bug on this please ?

Jeremy.