Service pack 4 for Netware 6 has been successfully applied to the root-ring, and all is well. In addition, this brought in a new version of dsrepair, which allowed a continual-sync problem we had to go away. The problem wasn't significant, just annoying to those purists among us who don't like strange things happening to our directory-services. The fix to our problem is described here.
Almost a year ago, we were doing some consolidations of replicas in our NDS tree. One replica got merged with the root replica. Unfortunately, somehow a transitive vector was still flying around with the replica-number of the now-dead replica. Thus, updates to the object in question have been staying on the transitive vector for almost a year. The object worked just fine, it was just that the changes were chasing themselves around the root-ring. A side effect of this is that the root-ring was never more than 3 seconds out of sync from each other due to the continual sync. That ain't normal.
Almost a year ago, we were doing some consolidations of replicas in our NDS tree. One replica got merged with the root replica. Unfortunately, somehow a transitive vector was still flying around with the replica-number of the now-dead replica. Thus, updates to the object in question have been staying on the transitive vector for almost a year. The object worked just fine, it was just that the changes were chasing themselves around the root-ring. A side effect of this is that the root-ring was never more than 3 seconds out of sync from each other due to the continual sync. That ain't normal.