[PATCH] Server affinity for winbindd in Samba 3.0

[Guenther Deschner]

Hi Jerry,

On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 02:32:36PM -0600, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> Here's a small patch for implementing what MS calls "server
> affinity".  It's the idea that we should give preference to
> the DC that we last successfully connected to.  For example,
> winbindd should use the same server that 'net ads join' utilized
> in order to avoid problems due to domain replication.
> 
> The patch itself is at
> http://www.samba.org/~jerry/patches/samba-3.0.21b-affinity.patch

Yes, this looks really interesting ! 

As in general our various find-dc-routines really need some cleanup.

Cheers,
Guenther

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Günther Deschner                    GPG-ID: 8EE11688
Novell / SUSE LINUX                       gd at suse.de
Samba Team                              gd at samba.org
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