redundant DNS setup with bind_dlz possible ?

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Thu Apr 12 02:52:04 MDT 2012


On Thu, 2012-04-12 at 10:50 +0200, Andreas Oster wrote:
> Am 12.04.2012 10:42, schrieb Andrew Bartlett:
> > 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
> Hello Andrew,
> 
> thank you for your fast response.
> I am not sure if I do understand what needs to be done :-)
> 
> 1) setup a new samba4 DC and join it to AD
> 2) run samba_upgradedns --no-migrate
> 3) setup bind9 with DLZ module
> 4) start bind9
> 
> is this correct ?

Something like that, yes.

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