Renaming of site name causes replication issues

[Matthieu Patou]

On 04/25/2012 05:38 AM, Kev Latimer wrote:
> Following on from my recent "resetting a DC" post, here's what 
> happened and the errors I'm trying to clear.
>
> To correct a "political typo" when I created my initial five sites in 
> "sites and services", I renamed one site in said MMC.  The rename 
> happened correctly and each DC reported the new name.  What didn't 
> occur was renaming of DNS entries for each site, which I've 
> subsequently modified/added/removed using a combination of 
> PhpLDAPAdmin and the DNS MMC.
>
> For background, I have 6 DC's - one initial DC, which is the 
> nameserver running BIND9_DLZ and a second one on the same 
> subnet/site.  I have four other DC's on four remote subnets/sites
>
> The renaming seems to have caused a replication issue, however.  Every 
> five minutes, I'll see the following in one of the "additional" DC's:
>
> [2012/04/25 13:25:57,  0] ../lib/ldb-samba/ldb_wrap.c:68(ldb_wrap_debug)
>   ldb: replmd_replicated_request rename 
> CN=Teesside,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=tclad,DC=tolent,DC=co,DC=uk 
> => 
> CN=Thornaby,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=tclad,DC=tolent,DC=co,DC=uk 
> failed - Linked attribute 
> hasPartialReplicaNCs->msDS-IsPartialReplicaFor between CN=NTDS 
> Settings,CN=TE-DC1,CN=Servers,CN=Teesside,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=tclad,DC=tolent,DC=co,DC=uk 
> and DC=ForestDnsZones,DC=tclad,DC=tolent,DC=co,DC=uk - remote not 
> found - No such Base DN: DC=ForestDnsZones,DC=tclad,DC=tolent,DC=co,DC=u
>
> [2012/04/25 13:25:57,  0] 
> ../source4/dsdb/repl/replicated_objects.c:557(dsdb_replicated_objects_commit)
>   Failed to apply records: Linked attribute 
> hasPartialReplicaNCs->msDS-IsPartialReplicaFor between CN=NTDS 
> Settings,CN=TE-DC1,CN=Servers,CN=Teesside,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=tclad,DC=tolent,DC=co,DC=uk 
> and DC=ForestDnsZones,DC=tclad,DC=tolent,DC=co,DC=uk - remote not 
> found - No such Base DN: 
> DC=ForestDnsZones,DC=tclad,DC=tolent,DC=co,DC=u : Other
> [2012/04/25 13:25:57,  0] 
> ../source4/dsdb/repl/drepl_out_helpers.c:714(dreplsrv_op_pull_source_apply_changes_trigger)
>   Failed to commit objects: 
> WERR_GENERAL_FAILURE/NT_STATUS_INVALID_NETWORK_RESPONSE
>
> You can see the original site name 
> (CN=Teesside,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=tclad,DC=tolent,DC=co,DC=uk) 
> and the new site name 
> (CN=Thornaby,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=tclad,DC=tolent,DC=co,DC=uk) 
> in there, and which this is from the additional DC in the same subnet 
> as the DNS-hosting DC, you'll also see this in any of the other 
> additional DC's (but not in the original, DNS-hosting DC).
>
Issue seems to be related that you have partial replica of the DNS 
application partitions, it seems not correctly handled for the moment.

Please file a bug.

Matthieu.

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Matthieu Patou
Samba Team
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