[Samba] Standby secondary domain controller

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Sat, 2014-02-01 at 17:47 +0000, David wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I configured a main DC and secondary domain controller
> successfully. The only problem is that I want the secondary DC to
> Stand By, so most of the time it is shutdown.
> 
> The problem is that when the secondary DC is shutdown on the primary
> DC I receive continously the following error which is filling the
> logs:
> 
> Feb  1 14:23:56 saturno samba[3217]: [2014/02/01 14:23:56.021591,  0]
> ../source4/librpc/rpc/dcerpc_sock.c:262(continue_socket_connect)
> Feb  1 14:23:56 saturno samba[3217]:   Failed to connect host
> 192.168.10.23 on port 1024 - NT_STATUS_HOST_UNREACHABLE
> Feb  1 14:23:56 saturno samba[3217]: [2014/02/01 14:23:56.021915,  0]
> ../source4/librpc/rpc/dcerpc_sock.c:425(continue_ip_open_socket)
> Feb  1 14:23:56 saturno samba[3217]:   Failed to connect host
> 192.168.10.23
> (23076d4e-30ec-410a-bd7b-7d2fea29d2e4._msdcs.ezplanet.org) on port
> 1024 - NT_STATUS_HOST_UNREACHABLE.
> 
> Is there a method to allow the secondary DC to be shutdown without
> getting continously the above error?

No.  Just don't do that.  We need to send replication notifications out
to the peer DCs to ensure the replication fabric is consistent.

Andrew Bartlett

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