[Samba] Internal DNS and recursion
John Gardeniers
jgardeniers at objectmastery.com
Wed Aug 19 00:57:13 UTC 2015
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.
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.
regards,
John
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