Renaming of site name causes replication issues

Kev Latimer klatimer at tolent.co.uk
Thu Apr 26 08:19:18 MDT 2012


On 25/04/2012 17:04, Matthieu Patou wrote:
> On 04/25/2012 05:38 AM, Kev Latimer wrote:
>> Following on from my recent "resetting a DC" post, here's what 
>> happened and the errors I'm trying to clear.
>>
>> To correct a "political typo" when I created my initial five sites in 
>> "sites and services", I renamed one site in said MMC.  The rename 
>> happened correctly and each DC reported the new name.  What didn't 
>> occur was renaming of DNS entries for each site, which I've 
>> subsequently modified/added/removed using a combination of 
>> PhpLDAPAdmin and the DNS MMC.
>>
>> For background, I have 6 DC's - one initial DC, which is the 
>> nameserver running BIND9_DLZ and a second one on the same 
>> subnet/site.  I have four other DC's on four remote subnets/sites
>>
>> The renaming seems to have caused a replication issue, however.  
>> Every five minutes, I'll see the following in one of the "additional" 
>> DC's:
>>
>> [2012/04/25 13:25:57,  0] ../lib/ldb-samba/ldb_wrap.c:68(ldb_wrap_debug)
>>   ldb: replmd_replicated_request rename 
>> CN=Teesside,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=tclad,DC=tolent,DC=co,DC=uk 
>> => 
>> CN=Thornaby,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=tclad,DC=tolent,DC=co,DC=uk 
>> failed - Linked attribute 
>> hasPartialReplicaNCs->msDS-IsPartialReplicaFor between CN=NTDS 
>> Settings,CN=TE-DC1,CN=Servers,CN=Teesside,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=tclad,DC=tolent,DC=co,DC=uk 
>> and DC=ForestDnsZones,DC=tclad,DC=tolent,DC=co,DC=uk - remote not 
>> found - No such Base DN: DC=ForestDnsZones,DC=tclad,DC=tolent,DC=co,DC=u
>>
>> [2012/04/25 13:25:57,  0] 
>> ../source4/dsdb/repl/replicated_objects.c:557(dsdb_replicated_objects_commit)
>>   Failed to apply records: Linked attribute 
>> hasPartialReplicaNCs->msDS-IsPartialReplicaFor between CN=NTDS 
>> Settings,CN=TE-DC1,CN=Servers,CN=Teesside,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=tclad,DC=tolent,DC=co,DC=uk 
>> and DC=ForestDnsZones,DC=tclad,DC=tolent,DC=co,DC=uk - remote not 
>> found - No such Base DN: 
>> DC=ForestDnsZones,DC=tclad,DC=tolent,DC=co,DC=u : Other
>> [2012/04/25 13:25:57,  0] 
>> ../source4/dsdb/repl/drepl_out_helpers.c:714(dreplsrv_op_pull_source_apply_changes_trigger)
>>   Failed to commit objects: 
>> WERR_GENERAL_FAILURE/NT_STATUS_INVALID_NETWORK_RESPONSE
>>
>> You can see the original site name 
>> (CN=Teesside,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=tclad,DC=tolent,DC=co,DC=uk) and 
>> the new site name 
>> (CN=Thornaby,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=tclad,DC=tolent,DC=co,DC=uk) in 
>> there, and which this is from the additional DC in the same subnet as 
>> the DNS-hosting DC, you'll also see this in any of the other 
>> additional DC's (but not in the original, DNS-hosting DC).
>>
> Issue seems to be related that you have partial replica of the DNS 
> application partitions, it seems not correctly handled for the moment.
>
> Please file a bug.
>
> Matthieu.
>
Thanks Matthieu, bug filed.

-- 
Kev


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