redundant DNS setup with bind_dlz possible ?

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Thu Apr 12 02:42:39 MDT 2012


On Thu, 2012-04-12 at 07:52 +0200, Andreas Oster wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I am currently have a samba4 setup with bind9 as DNS server
> running on the same machine using the bind_dlz module provided
> by samba4. I am now curious if it is possible to set up a
> redundant/second samba4/bind9 DC for redundancy. I know that
> the AD part is no problem but what about the DNS part ? Will
> the zone infos be replicated between the two DCs ? What do I
> have to configure to add the new DC/bind9 as a secondary DNS ?
> How would secure DNS updates be handled ?

It should be as simple as running the samba_upgradedns script on the
second DC (to export the new partitions to the DLZ module on the second
DC), but there have been some reported issues with that.

Andrew Bartlett
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