Total dcerpc response payload more than 0x400000

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Wed Jun 22 19:29:08 UTC 2016


On Wed, 2016-06-22 at 20:37 +0200, Stefan Metzmacher wrote:

> > Except that Samba has never honoured such a restriction, nor has
> > any
> > code to prevent the server-side sending large responses, nor the
> > client
> > side to retry asking for smaller responses. 
> > 
> > A 4MB and even a 16MB limit is still small enough to break networks
> > in
> > frustrating, incredibly difficult to debug ways that *will* only
> > happen
> > at large, complex installations, when it breaks replication.  
> > 
> > Given all that, and that even if we fix all the above we will have
> > old
> > versions as replication partners, I strongly request we remove the
> > restriction for DRS replication. 
> 
> What about the attached patches?
> 
> I'll do an autobuild with this later.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>

Thank you for your understanding.

Andrew Bartlett

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