[Samba] AD DNS scavenging and winbind:

[Matthew J. Salerno]

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.4 (Tikanga)
Samba 3.0.33-3.15.el5_4.1

I have run into an issue where the DNS records added by a net ads join seem to be being scavenged.  From what I understand, Windows servers/workstations check in (update their host record) on the AD DNS server on a regular basis.  So the question is, how can I have samba/winbind do the same?

I could just setup a cron job that executes: net ads dns register -P

But that's kind of ugly.

I know I can't be the first person to see this behavior.   Is there a more elegant solution?

Thanks