[Samba] Authentication to Secondary Domain Controller initially fails when PDC is offline
Allen Chen
achen at harbourfrontcentre.com
Sun Nov 22 03:43:23 UTC 2015
I can prove this within my environment:
at the main site: one DC server(samba 4.1.13), one dhcp server, two DNS
servers(forward AD query to two AD servers),
at the branch site: one DC server(samba 4.1.13), one dhcp server, one
DNS server(forward AD query to two AD server),
DNSs on client machines point to the DNS servers(not point to the DC).
The two DCs are synced and do their work properly without any
issue(almost one year, connected via openVPN).
Two sites are configured(using windows sites and services tool):
one site for branch with its subnet, and the Default-First-Site-Name
for the main site with its subnets.
Clients at branch automatically log in to the branch DC, and clients at
the main site automatically log in to the main site DC.
Everything is working as supposed.
but one thing doesn't work as the subject says:
I power off the DC at the main site, or just kill samba process, login
hangs at main site.
I start samba service, I can log in immediately.
I don't know why it doesn't use the DC at branch site when the main site
DC is offline.
If anybody has similar settings, can you share your experience when one
DC is offline?
Thanks,
Allen
DC at branch site,
On 11/20/2015 12:35 PM, James wrote:
> On 11/20/2015 10:17 AM, mathias dufresne wrote:
>>
>>
>> 2015-11-20 15:11 GMT+01:00 James <lingpanda101 at gmail.com
>> <mailto:lingpanda101 at gmail.com>>:
>>
>> On 11/20/2015 7:40 AM, Ole Traupe wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> Am 20.11.2015 um 11:54 schrieb mathias dufresne:
>>
>> Hi Ole,
>>
>> I'm still not answering your issue but I come back to
>> speak about TTL. Perhaps someone would be able to bring us
>> some light on that.
>>
>> This morning I'm trying to reproduce the way I do broke my
>> test AD domain. This leads me to deal with SOA record (I
>> broke my test AD seizing FSMO roles before removing old
>> FSMO owner, SOA was not changed during that process and I
>> suspect this was one of the point leading to all issues
>> this test domain has)
>>
>> Anyway:
>> samba-tool dns query m700 samba.domain.tld
>> samba.domain.tld SOA -k yes
>> Name=, Records=1, Children=0
>> SOA: serial=1, refresh=900, retry=600, expire=86400,
>> *minttl=3600*, ns=m700.samba.domain.tld.,
>> email=hostmaster.samba.domain.tld. (flags=600000f0,
>> serial=1, *ttl=3600*)
>> Name=_msdcs, Records=0, Children=0
>> Name=_sites, Records=0, Children=1
>> Name=_tcp, Records=0, Children=4
>> Name=_udp, Records=0, Children=2
>> Name=DomainDnsZones, Records=0, Children=2
>> Name=ForestDnsZones, Records=0, Children=2
>> Name=m700, Records=0, Children=0
>>
>> This shows us TTL is in fact equal to minimumttl inside
>> AD DB.
>>
>>
>> Not for me:
>>
>> SOA: serial=29, refresh=180, retry=600, expire=86400,
>> minttl=180, ns=DC2.my.domain.tld.,
>> email=hostmaster.my.domain.tld. (flags=600000f0, serial=0,
>> ttl=3600)
>>
>>
>>
>> According to
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20297531/meaning-of-the-five-fields-of-the-answer-section-in-dig-query
>> the second member of dig's answer section is TTL.
>>
>> dig -t soa samba.domain.tld
>> ...
>> samba.domain.tld. *3593* IN SOA
>> m700.samba.domain.tld. hostmaster.samba.domain.tld. 1 900
>> 600 86400 3600
>> ...
>> When yesterday the same request gave the following answer:
>>
>> ...
>> samba.domain.tld. *1715* IN SOA DC1.samba.domain.tld.
>> 62 900 600 86400 3600
>> ...
>>
>> So I ran several that same command and each the value
>> displayed as second member (here 1715 or 3593) was
>> descreased by the same amount of second as the time
>> between my command launchs.
>>
>> It seems this shown TTL is declared TTL (or minttl) minus
>> the amount of seconds since last renewal of this TTL. No
>> idae why this behaviour. If someone knows, I would be
>> pleased to learn :)
>>
>>
>> Yes, I thought so. This is "remaining TTL" for you.
>>
>> Interestingly, for me this value is always constant and equals
>> 1h, no matter what.
>>
>>
>> ANYWAYS, I would like to approach from a different direction:
>>
>> If my first DC is offline, a ping on any of my domain machines
>> takes 5+ seconds to resolve. I figure that my logon problems
>> reflect multiple such timeouts during the logon process
>> accumulating to a total duration not accepted by the unix
>> logon mechanism.
>>
>> If there would be ANY way to reduce the time (to 1 s or
>> something) a machines waits until it finally accepts that a
>> DNS server just won't respond and goes over to the next one...
>> - that actually might solve the issue.
>>
>> Is there an option for this on unix machines?
>>
>> Ole
>>
>> You can add your DC's to your hosts file. Usually your hosts file
>> is queried first, prior to DNS for resolve.
>>
>> One thing I notice a bit odd is this
>>
>> SOA: serial=29, refresh=180, retry=600, expire=86400, minttl=180,
>> *ns=DC2.my.domain.tld.*, email=hostmaster.my.domain.tld.
>> (flags=600000f0, serial=0, ttl=3600)
>>
>> Normally your name server would be the same as your DC who is SOA.
>> Did you manually change this from DC1 to DC2? What DC is your SOA?
>>
>> -- -James
>>
>>
>> I thought all name servers of a given zone should be declared as NS
>> for they can all reply to queries.
>> But on my AD there is only one NS, the SOA.
>> In fact I thought the SOA was here to distinguish which NS among all
>> NS is the master.
>>
>> With only one NS record when several DNS are present for the same
>> zone, I expect only one NS will reply to every request so, according
>> to what I had understood about DNS, only one DC will receive all
>> requests from clients.
>>
>> If I'm right, why Samba does not add NS when a DC is joined?
>>
>> Today I played with fsmo seize. I haven't checked NS records until
>> now. I have 2 DCs, DC1 & DC2, DC2 became new FSMO, I also modified
>> SOA record to set SOA on DC2.
>> Looking for NS record of my AD I have only DC1 as NS when DC2 is SOA.
>>
>> Ole,
>>
>> I would declare DC2 as NS. Then once DC1 is off, when a client would
>> ask for NS list of your AD this client would receive DC1 + DC2 and
>> would have more chances to send its request to DC2.
>>
>> Then you re-run your test with only DC2 up and running.
>> Note DNS have need time to be updated if you are using others DNS
>> servers between clients and AD DCs.
> The SOA RR identifies a primary DNS name server for the zone as the
> best source of information for the data within that zone and as a
> entity processing the updates for the zone.
>
> The NS resource record is used to notate which DNS servers are
> designated as authoritative for the zone. Listing a server in the NS
> RR, it becomes known to others as an authoritative server for the
> zone. This means that any server specified in the NS RR is to be
> considered an authoritative source by others, and is able to answer
> with certainty any queries made for names included in the zone.
>
> Much of the above was taken almost verbatim from online Microsoft tech
> documents. I don't believe that DC's create NS records by default.
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Allen Chen
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