[OpenAFS] 1.7.3 Windows 7 client explorer window delay

[John W. Sopko Jr.]

I just saw that 1.7.4 was out, I upgraded, same timeout delay issue.

John W. Sopko Jr. wrote, On 12/20/2011 8:02 AM:
> I have been out of town, thus the reply delay. I had openafs 1.5.x installed,
> my lmhosts file looks like this:
>
> 10.254.254.253 AFS #PRE
>
> Note I had removed the loopback interface in Device Manger after I did
> the upgrade to 1.7.3 . Also I have 2 additional 10.x.x.x IP aliases on the
> interface that I use to manage various devices. I get no timeout in other
> network shares.
>
> When we get a chance we will try another machine with a single IP address.
>
>
>
> Jeffrey Altman wrote, On 12/16/2011 10:57 AM:
>> If you install WireShark and watch the network traffic on the machine I
>> suspect that you will find that the delay is being caused by the Microsoft Lan
>> Manager (SMB) network provider. It issues an NBNS Name query for "AFS <20>"
>> and then a DNS query for "afs.<search-domain>". If it gets a response to
>> either it then attempts an ICMP ping to the resulting address and an NBNS
>> NBSTAT query. Only after the LanMan provider times out does it report failure
>> and it retries this sequence for every request.
>>
>> Adding a fake "AFS" entry to the %windir%\system32\drivers\etc\LMHOSTS file
>> prevents the NBNS Name queries for "AFS <20>" from being sent. At the
>> present time, the OpenAFS installer only creates such an entry as part of
>> installing the Microsoft Loopback Adapter which is not installed by default
>> now that the afs redirector driver is available.
>>
>> Jeffrey Altman
>>
>>
>>
>

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