2011/6/23 Grazvydas Ignotas <[email protected]>: > Hello, > > one of our slave servers have changed it's address, and I can no > longer access it's shares that are forwarded to by the main server > using DFS redirection. The slave server resolves correctly when trying > to access it directly, but when trying to access through a mount on > the main server, cifsFYI shows dns_resolve_server_name_to_ip returns > the old address. I've verified slave server names match and windows > clients can access those DFS shares correctly. It has been several > days since server address change. I'm running 2.6.38.2 kernel on > Ubuntu 10.04. > > Any way to clear that dns_resolver cache? I have no desire to reboot > the machine. >
It seems that dns_resolver sets expiry timeout to zero here (http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/security/keys/key.c#L310) and doesn't change it - so, it always returns cached value. David, can you comment on this problem, please? -- Best regards, Pavel Shilovsky. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
