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

[Chan Min Wai]

Can't ping still but replication work....




On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 4:58 AM, mourik jan heupink - merit <
heupink at merit.unu.edu> wrote:

> 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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