samba_dnsupdate and multiple interfaces

[brendan powers]

I'm running bind 9.7.3 and I have DNS and dynamic updates configured
and working. The problem is that when samba does it's DNS updates, it
adds a lot of extra addresses to the zone. I have manually edited the
samba_dnsupdate script to only use the correct IP, and that has fixed
things for now.  However, I'm wondering why samba_dnsupdate is set up
to work this way.

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Theresa Halloran
<thallora at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> On 4/26/2011 1:00 PM, brendan powers wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone know why samba_dnsupdate adds DNS records for all
>> interfaces except loopback? This is causing problems in my setup
>> because it adds records for subnets that are not available from my
>> network(VPN and VMWare interfaces).
>>
>> This would be very useful if bind new what IPs to hand out to what
>> clients. However, it just picks from the list in a round robin
>> fashion(I think), and clients on my network get addresses outside
>> their range.
>>
>> Am I doing something wrong, or is this the way the samba_dnsupdate
>> script is supposed to work?
>
> Hi Brendan,  I am new to samba and have been bringing up samba4 to try
> things out.  For what its worth, I had trouble with DNS initially as well,
> and have two suggestions:
> 1) what level of bind do you have?  if pre 9.8, then upgrade to post 9.8 as
> several fixes have been put in for samba at 9.8 level.  This can save a lot
> of time....
> 2) Have you seen the the samba4 how-to:
> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/HOWTO#Video_demonstrations_of_this_HOWTO
> ...step 8 has information on how to configure the DNS and some suggestions
> on how to avoid some common problems and step 10 is on configuring kerberos
> DNS dynamic updates.
>
> Theresa
>
>