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4.1.7 Slow To Respond To SMB Network Discovery...
Hi, Since upgrading my DUO to 4.1.7 I have noticed that the DUO is *very* slow to respond SMB/SAMBA network share enumeration requests. It may take up to about a minute for the DUO to provide its ...
Earlier in this thread someone said
If Netgear is testing this in an environment where these addresses are valid, this (or another similar issue) could explain why only Netgear is unaffected by this issue.
In any case, restarting Samba seems like a good enough workaround. My 4.1.7 is running fine now, and I assume it will continue to until the next reboot.
What I thought I saw during the enumeration were attempts to connect to two addresses that are not active (or even valid for my home subnet) viz something like 10.1.1.6 and 10.1.1.7, which eventually time out. I'm starting to wonder if there's some stale information in a tdb file somewhere.
If Netgear is testing this in an environment where these addresses are valid, this (or another similar issue) could explain why only Netgear is unaffected by this issue.
In any case, restarting Samba seems like a good enough workaround. My 4.1.7 is running fine now, and I assume it will continue to until the next reboot.
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