[Samba] samba wiki

[Marc Muehlfeld]

Hello Louis,

Am 09.07.2014 13:54, schrieb L.P.H. van Belle:
> i was reading: 
>  
> http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_AD_DC_HOWTO#Testing_DNS 
> 
> which stats : 
> Don't use BIND9_FLATFILE! It's not documented and supported!  
>  
> This is wrong imo.  
>  
> bind9_flatefile works fine, it just does not support multi master dns, and bind9_DLZ does. 
> so you must setup a master/slave setup for bind9 with flatfile
>  
> If you need to run a network with dhcp-failover then this is the only option you can run if you also have multple DC's 
>  
> I've tested this and this works perfectly, AD changes are handeld by samba, dns changed by dhcp and bind. 
>  
> When i have more "air" at work, i'll post the setup for this. 

Andrew suggested a while ago, not to use BIND9_FLATFILE and that it may
get removed anyway:

https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2013-June/173684.html


Maybe Andrew can bring some light into the darkness about
BIND9_FLATFILE. It it's really planed to get removed, then I'm not sure
if we should put a documentation about that to the Wiki.

Regards,
Marc