infinite loop in find_new_dc

Herb Lewis hlewis at panasas.com
Wed Feb 11 14:09:47 MST 2009


If you are not using WINS and your DNS search order does not
allow resolution of the name returned by the get_dcs call
you will put winbindd into an infinite loop in this function
because of the "goto again" at the end of the function.

this is in source/winbindd/winbindd_cm.c and the problem
exists in 3.0 as well as 3.2 and I assume 3.3.

Why are we doing this retry, and if it is necessary, we
need to put a max number of trys on it


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