[Samba] How to switch from internal DNS to Bind

[Rowland penny]

On 30/12/15 19:48, James wrote:
> Hello,
>
>     I'm attempting to switch from the internal DNS to Bind. This is 
> for my Samba test environment on a VM running Samba 4.3.1 on Ubuntu 
> server 12.04.1. Installed Samba using all the defaults.
>
> ./configure
> make
> make install
>
> Pulled up the wiki link
>
> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Changing_the_DNS_backend#Changing_from_Samba_Internal_DNS_to_BIND_DLZ 
>
>
> Not sure if this is the correct start page. After the introduction I 
> see the link "Setup Bind". I figure I need to start there? So I click 
> the link and in the introduction I see another link for 
> "Setup_a_basic_BIND_installation". Maybe this is where I should begin? 
> I install BIND via. the repository.
>
> apt-get install bind9
>
> The wiki then says "*make sure that it was compiled with the 
> '--with-gssapi' and '--with-dlopen' options*". I check by using
>
> named -V | grep "gssapi"
>
> '--with-gssapi=/usr'
>
> Is this sufficient or do I need the absolute path to 
> --with-gssapi=/usr/include/gssapi?
>
> named -V | grep "dlopen"
>
> Returns nothing.  Can I add these options after the fact or do I need 
> to uninstall and compile on my own before proceeding any further? Thanks.
>
>
>
>

What version of bind9 ?
later versions have dlopen builtin, but I seem to remember (from when I 
used 12.04) having to build bind9. Could you upgrade to 14.04, this will 
definitely give you a working bind9

Rowland