wins failover not working + patch
Christopher R. Hertel
crh at nts.umn.edu
Fri Aug 17 20:24:53 GMT 2001
> Ok , nice someone is working on it.
>
> I was wondering if I was the only one using this feature!!
>
>
> I saw the function lib/wins_srv.c:wins_srv_ip(), but this function only
> return a good wins found in wins_srv_list, but in
Right. The function returns the first 'live' WINS server in the list.
> libsmb/namequery.c:resolve_wins() call wins_srv_ip only once and then in
> libsmb/namerequery.c:name_query() it call wins_srv_died.
Right, but the right place to check for a "dead" WINS server is in the
query code. If the WINS server does not respond then we mark it dead.
Pinging it, or opening a connection to it at any other time is wasteful.
We only care if it is alive when we want to ask a question of it.
I should also point out that the call to wins_srv_died() should be
commented out. Hmmm... It doesn't seem to be causing trouble. Still,
that code isn't supposed to be 'live' yet.
Anyway, yes I can change the code so that it tries all of the WINS servers
in sequence until it finds a working one or runs out of entries. I had
not done that yet since the code wasn't "live" yet.
> It would be better to check if the wins is up in wins_srv_ip() and if not:
No. The name_query() function already does a proper test. It needs to
try three times (per RFC1002) and provide enough time for a response.
That test is done in only one place in Samba. The wins_srv.c code
provides only a simple list manger. I'd rather let the query code decide
whether the server is dead, since that's one of the things that the query
code can do.
> Does it make sense?
I understand what you are trying to do, but I have reasons for doing this
differently. See above.
> Thanks for the responds.
Thanks for your interest!
Chris -)-----
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