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

[mourik jan heupink - merit]

Hi,

Yes, what I'm saying is not that without the guid's in /etc/hosts 
replication will give errors. (we have had successful replication here 
as well)

What I'm saying is, that there were some remaining WERR_BADFILE repl 
errors after adding a new dc. After waiting hours, restarting samba 
several times these did not go away.

Then I read the post I mentioned, and added the GUID's to /etc/hosts, 
and immediately my WERR_BADFILE errors disappeared.

I no expert, and again: we've always had successful replication here as 
well, without the entries in /etc/hosts. But these errors remained, and 
disappeared immediately after editing /etc/hosts.

Plus there have been some more similar reports on this list, I'd say: 
where there is smoke, there is a fire.

Some 'evidence' from the list archives, three different threads over the 
last year, similar problem, all sharing the same solution:

http://marc.info/?l=samba&m=137032630404682&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=samba&m=137003992508143&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=samba&m=137000020326397&w=2

Again: not saying that it will never work without the entries in 
/etc/hosts, but...

Kind regards,
Mourik Jan

On 8/27/2014 8:22, L.P.H. van Belle wrote:
> Hai Mourik Jan,
>
>
> host bd6bdc30-c9b2-4fd4-9bdc-4230fec98d59._msdcs.internal.domain.tld
> bd6bdc30-c9b2-4fd4-9bdc-4230fec98d59._msdcs.internal.domain.tld is an alias for rtd-dc1.internal.domain.tld.
> rtd-dc1.internal.domain.tld has address 192.168.0.1
> root at rtd-dc1:~# ping bd6bdc30-c9b2-4fd4-9bdc-4230fec98d59._msdcs.internal.domain.tld
> ping: unknown host bd6bdc30-c9b2-4fd4-9bdc-4230fec98d59._msdcs.internal.domain.tld
>
> and samba-tool drs showrepl shows 0 errors.
>
> Greetz,
>
> Louis
>
>
>> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>> Van: heupink at merit.unu.edu
>> [mailto:samba-bounces at lists.samba.org] Namens mourik jan
>> heupink - merit
>> Verzonden: dinsdag 26 augustus 2014 22:59
>> Aan: Chan Min Wai; Marc Muehlfeld
>> CC: samba at lists.samba.org
>> Onderwerp: Re: [Samba] replication issues solved by adding
>> GUID names to /etc/hosts
>>
>> 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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