[Samba] clustered samba registers all non CTDB addresses at WINS server

[Michael Adam]

Daniel Müller wrote:
> But the entry for your ctdb cluster manual in your windows2008 wins.

Sorry, somehow Im not getting this sentence... :-)

> I think ctdb would be better in a dns ads then in a netbios wins Environment.

Yes. This is where it is mostly used and best tested.

Cheers - Michael

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> Von: samba-bounces at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-bounces at lists.samba.org] Im
> Auftrag von Michael Adam
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 12. April 2011 22:33
> An: erik bergsma
> Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
> Betreff: Re: [Samba] clustered samba registers all non CTDB addresses at
> WINS server
> 
> Hi Erik,
> 
> erik bergsma wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > in the first step to separate my wins/netbios/nmbd and my clustered 
> > samba servers i've installed the WINS feature on a windows 2k8r2 
> > server, and set the "wins server = ip.adress.of.windows.server"
> > 
> > the weird thing is: my samba 3.5.8 do not only register the public 
> > CTDB ip addresses specified by "cluster addresses =", but also the 
> > static maintenance ip's + the internal ip address of each node (direct 
> > link between the nodes, not reachable from outside)
> > 
> > is this behaviour normal? and is this behaviour safe? or am i missing 
> > something in my smb.conf?
> > i can imagine that if a netbios request comes in for my domain name, 
> > and the returned address is 10.0.0.1 something goes wrong....
> 
> nmbd and wins in the cluster setup is probably not the best tested
> scenario...
> 
> I'd say that you are right and that we should _only_ register the "cluster
> addresses" and not the other autodetected ones.
> The problem is that in the cluster setup, samba needs to listen on the
> wildcard interface and this defaults to registering all of the found
> addresses with WINS.
> 
> I would consider the behaviour you describe a bug and think we should fix it
> to only register "cluster addresses" if it is set.
> 
> Cheers - Michael
> 
> > Regards,
> > Erik
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