samba - Jan 2012 - Preventing winbind from crashing while KDC is unreachable

hi,

we have here a multi-domain environment and my question is: is that a
wanted behavior, that winbind crashed with "error looking up domain
users" if a KDC isn't available and winbind had to be restarted to
work again?
We have a maintainance rotation for server an network.  So I wanted,
that Winbind notice for itself if the one specific KDC is on again (he
is not really down, but unreachable).

Thanks for helping.

Greetings Bj?rn

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 09:12:01AM +0100, Bjoern Meier
wrote:
> hi,
> 
> we have here a multi-domain environment and my question is: is that a
> wanted behavior, that winbind crashed with "error looking up domain
> users" if a KDC isn't available and winbind had to be restarted to
> work again?
> We have a maintainance rotation for server an network.  So I wanted,
> that Winbind notice for itself if the one specific KDC is on again (he
> is not really down, but unreachable).
winbindd shouldn't terminate in these circumstances, just keep
probing until it can re-establish a connection.