[Samba] Internal DNS and recursion
L.P.H. van Belle
belle at bazuin.nl
Wed Aug 19 08:43:37 UTC 2015
>> While on the subject of internal DNS, why do most functions not work
>> when using the RSAT DNS management tool? Is this situation likely to
>> improve in the near future? We could of course use external Bind,
>> which would allow us to use the existing scripts and commands that
>> we're used to, but that breaks the use of AD tools.
>
>No idea about the dns functions not working but I use Bind and the AD
>dns tool works for me.
>
>Rowland
Same here, samba 4.2.3 with bind dlz, just added about 100 entries with the win7 RATS tools in the dns.
Works great.
Greetz,
Louis
>-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>Van: samba [mailto:samba-bounces at lists.samba.org] Namens Rowland Penny
>Verzonden: woensdag 19 augustus 2015 10:22
>Aan: samba at lists.samba.org
>Onderwerp: Re: [Samba] Internal DNS and recursion
>
>On 19/08/15 01:57, John Gardeniers wrote:
>> On the Samba wiki at
>> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_Internal_DNS there is the
>> following:
>>
>> If you have chosen the internal DNS as backend for your environment,
>> there are only two options that can be added to your smb.conf, to
>> control the behaviour of DNS at this point:
>>
>> # Don't allow any updates | allow unsigned updates | only
>allow signed
>> updates
>> allow dns updates = False | nonsecure | signed
>>
>> # If recursive queries = yes is set, the following is also needed
>> dns forwarder = <ip addr of external dns server>
>>
>>
>> I think the page needs some urgent editing because self
>contradictions
>> merely create confusion. Specifically, there should be no
>reference to
>> "recursive queries = yes" in the comment if that is not even a valid
>> option. Alternatively, there could be a comment explaining that the
>> "dns forwarder" automatically actives recursion.
>
>OK, page updated.
>
>>
>> While on the subject of internal DNS, why do most functions not work
>> when using the RSAT DNS management tool? Is this situation likely to
>> improve in the near future? We could of course use external Bind,
>> which would allow us to use the existing scripts and commands that
>> we're used to, but that breaks the use of AD tools.
>
>No idea about the dns functions not working but I use Bind and the AD
>dns tool works for me.
>
>Rowland
>>
>> regards,
>> John
>>
>
>
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