[Samba] Internal DNS CNAME To Amazon Web Services Problem

[Rowland Penny]

On 29/06/15 10:09, Paul Littlefield wrote:
> Hello Samba Mailing List
>
> Well, the companies I contacted about this problem said that they 
> could not help because it was an actual Samba code issue, and not a 
> configuration issue.
>
> I have "got around it" for now by changing the internal CNAME to an A 
> record which points to another in-house server running Apache and then 
> creating a quick internal web site for the www.domain.com in question 
> which then serves an .htaccess file with the following:-
>
> Redirect 301 / http://path.to.amazon.s3.site.com
>
> e.g.     PC > DC > Apache Server > .htaccess > Amazon
>
> Not great, but it'll do for now, so the boss can see what the rest of 
> the world sees at the Amazon Web Services.
>
> I don't really want to bother with all the hassle of changing to BIND 
> for this tiny thing, so I am hoping the Samba developers can either 
> fix the recursive CNAME bug or put back the smb.conf option...

I 'think' this was what Volker was advising you to do, pay somebody to 
'fix' the samba code.
It probably will get fixed eventually, but there are other things that 
need fixing with higher priority, so if you need it fixing quickly, pay 
someone to do it, but as you have found a workaround, it probably wont 
happen. :'(

Rowland

>
> ...fingers and toes crossed!
>
> Thanks and regards,
>
> Paul
>