[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#705251: Bug#705251: smbclient -L produces suspicious DNS lookup failures in log.nmbd
Andrew Bartlett
abartlet at samba.org
Fri Apr 12 02:05:44 UTC 2013
On Thu, 2013-04-11 at 19:29 -0400, Ilguiz Latypov wrote:
> Package: smbclient
> Version: 2:3.6.13-1
> Severity: minor
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> * What led up to the situation?
>
> Ran smbclient -A /etc/credentials-USER -L HOST.example.net
>
> * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
> ineffective)?
>
> Ran the above command.
>
> * What was the outcome of this action?
>
> The list of shares showed up with a harmless NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_RESET
> message in the bottom.
>
> read_fd_with_timeout failed, read error = NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_RESET.
> Receiving SMB: Server 10.65.25.54 stopped responding
> session request to HOST.EXAMPLE.NET failed (Read error: Connection reset
> by peer)
>
> The log file /var/log/samba/log.nmbd had this,
>
> [2013/04/11 19:15:09, 3]
> nmbd/nmbd_winsserver.c:2068(wins_process_name_query_request)
> wins_process_name_query: name query for name HOST.EXAMPLE.NE<20>
> returning DNS fail.
Your wins server is acting as a dns proxy, and the name was truncated at
the maximum length for NBT names.
Andrew Bartlett
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Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org
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