Provision with DNS data in AD (was Re: samba4 and libdlz_bind9.so)

[Amitay Isaacs]

Hi Geza,


On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 3:39 AM, Gémes Géza <geza at kzsdabas.hu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Attached is the current state of my patch, which creates and uses
> DomainDNSZones and ForestDNSZones containers at provision if the domain
> level is 2008 or greater. According to my tests the creation and use of
> this containers is independent of the domain (or forest level) (I've
> created and destroyed four 1 domain forests on a Win2008R2 server wit
> functionality levels: 2000, 2003, 2008 and 2008r2 and the only
> difference was, that from 2003 to 2008r2 it also created
> CN=RootDNSServers,CN=MicrosoftDNS,DC=DomainDNSZones with the same
> content as CN=RootDNSServers,CN=MicrosoftDNS,CN=System), so it seems,
> that the DomainDNSZones and ForestDNSZones containers presence depends
> more from the os version than the domain or forest level. However since
> provision doesn't use any os_version like variables and not willing to
> create one I've coupled my os_version variable with the domain_level
> used by the provision script.
>
> The patch is still incomplete (and POSSIBLY BUGGY) I hadn't time to test
> it yet. I still need (at least) to create the entries under
> DC=_msdcs,CN=MicrosoftDNS,DC=ForestDNSZones.
>
> Unfortunately I'll be offline for the next 10 days, so please be patient
> with me (which doesn't mean) that I'm not open to criticism ;-)
> Still need to better understand the structures used by RPC, maybe the
> functions used by different parts of the provisioning.
>
> In the meantime it would be very helpful if someone could give me some
> examples how to read the data from an ndr encoded structure (I couldn't
> figure out how to use ndr_unpach() and ndr_print() :-(  )
>
> Thanks
>
> Cheers
>
> Geza


I am also interested in getting dlz_bind9 to work with DomainDnsZones and
ForestDnsZones.
I would like to work from your patch to add all the missing entries and do
some testing.

Have you made any more changes since this patch?

Amitay.