[Samba] replication issues solved by adding GUID names to /etc/hosts

[mourik jan heupink - merit]

Well, I can only tell you what I observed.

Does ping to the GUID name of your DC's work on your install? And for 
others here? I am on regular fresh installed wheezy x64.

MJ

On 08/26/2014 09:06 PM, Chan Min Wai wrote:
> Dear Mourik Jan,
>
> I would have to say that something was not right on your system library.
> I'm sorry that I cannot tell you which one.
>
> I was having this issue on my gentoo and recently found the problem was
> with my LDflags..
> I've to comment the one I normally use and leave it as default..
>
> Where other are basically unchanged...
>
> And now my DC can replicate between each other without the /etc/hosts
> modification.
>
> Hope this help....
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 2:36 AM, Marc Muehlfeld <mmuehlfeld at samba.org
> <mailto:mmuehlfeld at samba.org>> wrote:
>
>     Hello Mourik Jan,
>
>
>     Am 26.08.2014 20:24, schrieb mourik jan heupink - merit:
>      > We were having replication issues on wheezy with sernet-samba-4.1.11.
>      >
>      > Searching the list I found the following post:
>      > http://marc.info/?l=samba&m=136999742625184&w=2
>      >
>      > It says basically that if you are unable to *ping* the GUID names for
>      > your dc's, you might be experiencing a glibc error, where dns
>     names with
>      > an underscore are not properly resolved.
>      >
>      > Note: dns is basically correct, 'host' gives all the correct answers,
>      > samba_dnsupdate on all dc's says: no dns updates are needed.
>      >
>      > The fix in the post, is to add GUID names to /etc/hosts which I
>     did on
>      > my dc's, and then all of a sudden ping started working like it
>     should.
>      > But ALSO replication! Our 'WERR_BADFILE' errors are gone now.
>      >
>      > Now, is this not something that should be much more prominent in
>     the docs?
>
>     Thanks for providing this information. I'll try finding out more about
>     that and add it to the documentation.
>
>
>     Regards,
>     Marc
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