Samba domain master browser bound to wrong interface

[Matt Hansen]

Recently, I altered my Samba config to correctly listen only on the
internal interface (Samba is on the gateway so computer is multi-homed)
using 'interfaces' and 'bind interfaces only' param's. After restarting
the daemons, the following logs have been consistently appearing every 5
mins since:
 
*Attempting to become domain master browser on workgroup SIMBA,   subnet
UNICAST_SUBNET.
*become_domain_master_browser_wins: querying WINS server from IP
127.0.0.1 for domain master browser name SIMBA<1b> on workgroup SIMBA
* There is already a domain master browser at IP 210.49.xx.xx for
workgroup SIMBA registered on subnet UNICAST_SUBNET.
*Samba name server AMAZON is now a local master browser for workgroup
SIMBA on subnet 192.168.1.1

And a minute later this, but I think this is caused by the above
problem:
*Doing a node status request to the domain master browser for workgroup
SIMBA at IP 210.49.xx.xx failed. Cannot sync browser lists.

So it seems there's no problem becoming the LMB (local master) on the
correct internal interface (192.168.1.1) but every attempt to become the
DMB fails with the above errors. I tried ifdown'ing eth0 and restarting
samba but that didn't help. Google had almost nothing on this particular
error. I thought there would be a timeout for the current domain master
and a new election would see that samba is now listening on a new IP
address for the WINS server but this hasn't seemed to happen yet (I've
left it a few days to test).

Anyone have any ideas?

Regards,
Matt
-- 
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