[Samba] Authentication to Secondary Domain Controller initially fails when PDC is offline

[Rowland penny]

On 07/01/16 11:19, Ole Traupe wrote:
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> Am 07.01.2016 um 11:58 schrieb Rowland penny:
>> On 07/01/16 10:48, Ole Traupe wrote:
>>> Please don't post any sensitive information - even if I forget 
>>> sanitizing it.
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>>> This is probably the reason behind it: Our corporate DNS servers 
>>> hold info about our machines. This works together with DHCP. By 
>>> registering the machines I simply prevent any IP conflicts. My 
>>> domain DNS has nothing to do with it. In my domain members (Win 
>>> clients and Linux servers) only my DCs are set as DNS servers and 
>>> these members don't use DHCP.
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>>> Within my subnet, I get exactly the same as Rowland reported below.
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>>> Ole
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>> This is one of the reasons that you shouldn't use your corporate 
>> domain name for your AD domain name, if you do, your domain members 
>> are locatable from the internet.
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> In theory. Actually, most of them aren't.
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>> The domain name in question is *not* sensitive info, if it was, you 
>> wouldn't get any email :-)
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> My mail address is *not* ole.traupe@*bpn*.tu-berlin.de.

You know something, you are quite correct, it isn't :-D
This doesn't explain why host is returning the result it is, something 
out there thinks that bpn.tu-berlin.de has a mail server.

Rowland

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