Bug 11321 - net ads testjoin fails to find an off-site DC if the on-site DC is unavailable
Summary: net ads testjoin fails to find an off-site DC if the on-site DC is unavailable
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Samba 4.1 and newer
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Other (show other bugs)
Version: 4.2.2
Hardware: All All
: P5 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Andrew Bartlett
QA Contact: Samba QA Contact
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Reported: 2015-06-09 12:01 UTC by Uri Simchoni
Modified: 2016-09-13 16:04 UTC (History)
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Proposed fix ('git show' output) (8.50 KB, patch)
2015-06-09 12:02 UTC, Uri Simchoni
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Description Uri Simchoni 2015-06-09 12:01:14 UTC
This bug is reported on the 'net ads testjoin' command but is probably applicable to any component that uses libads to find a domain controller, e.g. when winbindd locates a domain controller for an ldap or smb connection.

To reproduce:
- Set up two AD sites - site1 and site2.
- Join a samba host as a member server to the domain, put it in site1, configure its DNS to be different than the site1 DC (so that when the DC goes down we still have DNS)
- run 'net ads testjoin' - OK
- shut down the DC on site1 (or just block CLDAP via Windows firewall)
- run 'net ads testjoin'

Expected result - success (fallback to site2)
Actual - failure

Output with log level set to 1:
ads_cldap_netlogon: did not get a reply
ads_find_dc: failed to find a valid DC on our site (Site1), trying to find another DC
Got a positive name query response from XXXXX ( XXXXX )
samba_tevent: EPOLL_CTL_DEL EBADF for fde[0x2a0cf540] mpx_fde[(nil)] fd[12] - disabling
ads_cldap_netlogon: did not get a reply
ads_connect: No logon servers
Join to domain is not valid: No logon servers
return code = -1
Comment 1 Uri Simchoni 2015-06-09 12:02:19 UTC
Created attachment 11135 [details]
Proposed fix ('git show' output)
Comment 2 Uri Simchoni 2015-06-09 18:51:16 UTC
Correction - for the bug to occur, netbios has to be enabled (disable netbios = false), which is the default.
Comment 3 Uri Simchoni 2015-09-04 19:15:28 UTC
A different version of the proposed fix has been merged into master before the v4-3 fork, so this should be fixed in 4.3.0.

See commits:
4d8241e017da534a933e28a0fd26e862ffae8038
28f51b915947061555ee12f8fbe0e5fab91f4194