Re: [Samba] logon requests on the BDC
On Monday 06 August 2007 05:38, Volker Lendecke wrote: On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 10:39:14AM +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote: Are there special things to do to make the BDC bias work? How can I troubleshoot the reason why it does not work? It has more to do with the order that the WINS server returns the addresses. There were some plans to have this randomised at one point. That's false as well. Metze knows more, but iirc it's the one who answers the getdc port 138 request first. So I guess the first address returned by the WINS server has an advantage. If the WINS server stores DCs addresses in increasing order (as I always observed) I suspect that there is a bias for the DC with the smallest IP. Regards, Thierry. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] logon requests on the BDC
On Monday 06 August 2007 05:38, Volker Lendecke wrote: On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 10:39:14AM +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote: Are there special things to do to make the BDC bias work? How can I troubleshoot the reason why it does not work? It has more to do with the order that the WINS server returns the addresses. There were some plans to have this randomised at one point. That's false as well. Metze knows more, but iirc it's the one who answers the getdc port 138 request first. Does the order mentioned by Andrew correspond to the order given by nmblookup 'mydomain#1c'? Playing with IP adresses I noticed that on a XP client echo %LOGONSERVER% gives me the netbios name of the DC (PDC or BDC) which has the smallest IP. In any case nmblookup 'mydomain#1c' outputs the PDC before the BDC. Is this behavior expected? Regards, Thierry. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] logon requests on the BDC
On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 17:44 +0200, Thierry Lacoste wrote: From the Samba Howto: The BDC is biased to answer logon requests in preference to the PDC. On a network segment that has a BDC and a PDC, the BDC will most likely service network logon requests. This isn't anything I've ever observed. While this appear to be the case on my test network all my tests show that this is not true on my production network. AFAICS both networks have the same software configurations and on each network the BDC runs on the same hardware as the PDC. Are there special things to do to make the BDC bias work? How can I troubleshoot the reason why it does not work? It has more to do with the order that the WINS server returns the addresses. There were some plans to have this randomised at one point. Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartletthttp://samba.org/~abartlet/ Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc. http://redhat.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] logon requests on the BDC
On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 10:39:14AM +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote: Are there special things to do to make the BDC bias work? How can I troubleshoot the reason why it does not work? It has more to do with the order that the WINS server returns the addresses. There were some plans to have this randomised at one point. That's false as well. Metze knows more, but iirc it's the one who answers the getdc port 138 request first. Volker pgp1ZSi32oBVs.pgp Description: PGP signature -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
