LDAP delay when connected DC goes down

[Meadows, Joe]

> However, I see every time a delay of around 5 seconds in the communication
> Of Winbind while the XP client is trying to "background" print and it looks
> like this:

> [2005/01/11 14:54:13, 10] nsswitch/winbindd_group.c:fill_grent_mem(221)
>  fill_grent_mem returning 1
> [2005/01/11 14:54:18, 10] nsswitch/winbindd.c:winbind_client_read(470)
>  client_read: read 1824 bytes. Need 0 more for a full request. 
>

Just a quick thought that 5 seconds sounds like a typical value for a DNS timeout.  Is the DC that goes down possibly running a DNS server?  Can you see the 5 second delay on a network trace?

-Joe