[Samba] Problems joining a domain with a large number of DCs

[Eric Diven]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gerald (Jerry) Carter [mailto:jerry at samba.org] 
> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 12:29 PM
> To: Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE
> Cc: Eric Diven; samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Problems joining a domain with a large 
> number of DCs
> 
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> Volker Lendecke wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 11:07:15AM -0600, Gerald (Jerry) 
> Carter wrote:
> >> This is the commit
> >> 
> http://gitweb.samba.org/?p=samba.git;a=commitdiff;h=af33c8b3521564c22
> >> 9091f197341ba33a7d6f162
> >>
> >> I expect it was only a regression in the older code.  You 
> could ask 
> >> Volker directly.
> > 
> > Okay, you completely lost me here. Looking at the subject 
> of the mails 
> > I thought this is about server affinity cache stuff during 
> join. How 
> > does af33c8b35215 relate to that?
> 
> Sorry.  My fault.  I pointed at the top of tree that you 
> referred to the snapshot.  I should have been paying more attention.
> 
> I'm guessing I should have been pointing at
> 
> 
> commit 80e74a27c55c01221091e3eec930c2ac4433c22c
> Author: Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org>
> Date:   Mon Oct 27 19:31:30 2008 +0100
> 
>     libsmb/namequery.c: add saf_join_store() function
> 
>     saf_join_store() should be called after a successful
>     domain join, the affinity to the dc used at join time
>     has a larger ttl, to avoid problems with delayed replication.
> 
>     metze
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org>
>     Signed-off-by: Günther Deschner <gd at samba.org>
> 
> And since the domain join code was rewritten to use libnet in 
> 3.2, this would explain why the commit doesn't seem to exist 
> in another branch.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> cheers, jerry
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Okay, I'll give the 3.2.x branch a try and see what happens.
Thanks for clarifying the situation on this.

~Eric