[Samba] HELP Gethostbyaddr failed

[Tom Peters]

I too have posted a message with this error in the logs but no one has 
addressed the issue. The subject of my message was:
Copy to 3.0.9-2.3-SUSE dies after 1.2 gb copied

Only in my case it occurs with 3.0.9 (I have not considered an upgrade to 
3.0.11 yet). Does no one have a suggestion for mitigating this issue?

Here is a section of my logfile:
[2005/03/09 13:52:04, 1] lib/util_sock.c:get_peer_name(1095)
   Gethostbyaddr failed for 172.20.0.186
[2005/03/09 13:52:04, 2] lib/access.c:check_access(324)
   Allowed connection from 172.20.0.186 (172.20.0.186)
[2005/03/09 13:52:04, 2] smbd/reply.c:reply_special(235)
   netbios connect: name1=TOLKIEN         name2=ELROND
[2005/03/09 13:52:04, 2] smbd/reply.c:reply_special(242)
   netbios connect: local=tolkien remote=elrond, name type = 0
[2005/03/09 14:23:12, 1] lib/util_sock.c:get_peer_name(1095)
   Gethostbyaddr failed for 172.20.0.186

I can only copy 1.2 to 1.4 gb of data to a share before a WinXP or Win2k 
client says that the network name is no longer available. But it is a 
transient condition-- if I try again, it will copy another gig to 
gig-and-a-half before failing again.

At 01:30 PM 3/10/2005 -0700, RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote:
>Thank you everyone on this list i have gained access to the shared drive 
>again.  Still have errors in the logs that worry me.  Also the server 
>seems very slow to connect the first time a machine logs on and 
>unresponsive to open files.  I will start a new thread for this later when 
>i have done some home work of my own as the documentation for samba is 
>very good.
>Thank you crisis solved now i just need to some research on how beef up 
>preformace a little.
>
>RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote:
>
>>I did a make deinstall and a reinstall to upgrade samba from 3.0.9 to 
>>3.0.11 last night at the office i work at and now i get this in the 
>>logs.  I am sure this has been asswered 100 time on this list but no one 
>>can connect to the shared drives.  This leave everyone point very angry 
>>fingers at me so please help here is the output of the logs.
>>[2005/03/10 12:18:20, 1] lib/util_sock.c:get_peer_name(1109)
>>  Gethostbyaddr failed for 192.168.0.5
>>[2005/03/10 12:18:20, 0] lib/access.c:check_access(328)
>>  Denied connection from 192.168.0.5 (192.168.0.5)
>>[2005/03/10 12:18:20, 1] smbd/process.c:process_smb(1084)
>>  Connection denied from 192.168.0.5
>>[2005/03/10 12:18:25, 1] lib/util_sock.c:get_peer_name(1109)
>>  Gethostbyaddr failed for 192.168.0.5
>>[2005/03/10 12:18:25, 0] lib/access.c:check_access(328)
>>  Denied connection from 192.168.0.5 (192.168.0.5)
>>[2005/03/10 12:18:25, 1] smbd/process.c:process_smb(1084)
>>  Connection denied from 192.168.0.5
>
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