Domain logon problem

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
Thu, 08 Jan 1998 20:34:39 -0000

On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Johan Carlstedt wrote:

> Problem:
>
> Domain logons temporary fail for a few minutes on all smb clients
> on the network.
>
> Reason:
>
> When using WINS support in samba-1.9.17p5 and the client request
> a resolv of a host-adress the sys_gethostbyname() system call in nmbd will
> block. When resolving a non-existant hostname or communicating
> with a slow nameserver the entire nmbd functionality will be unavailable
> causing this problem.

this is a known problem and has been fixed in 1.9.18 with the introduction
of an asynchronous dns lookup wrapper (asyncdns.c module).

lukes