FW: Winbindd timeout on unreacheable domains

[Simo Sorce]

On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 14:31, ww m-pubsyssamba wrote:
> Hi Andrew/All,
> 
> 	ok I've done a snoop to see what's going on (zip password is "snoop"). Basically the timeout is caused by something repeatedly trying to contact an IP which cannot be resolved by ARP (44 failed ARP requests), you can see many failed arp lookups. I beleive the part which finally resolves the timeout is as follows,
> 
> 
> 396   0.70071 bbcwwp-sun29 -> wwdc.testlan.bbc.co.uk NBT NS Query Request for CHILD1[1c], Success
> 397   0.00146 169.254.48.167 -> bbcwwp-sun29 NBT NS Query Response for CHILD1[1c], Success
> 
> 192.254.48.167? is that a dummy address which Samba is generating after finally timing out? It's definately not a valid IP on my test network,

s/192/169/

No it is not something that samba do, it is the kind of address windows
client set up by itslef when they are told to find a dynamic address but
no dhcp is found.

Simo.

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