Querying DNS info samba4

[Greg Dickie]

Thanks Amitay,

   I was working on a patch but I had some trouble detecting which
partition to use. I'll try and get back to it later.

I really appreciate the help.
Greg

On Thu, 2012-04-26 at 00:39 +1000, Amitay Isaacs wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 5:35 AM, Greg Dickie <greg at justaguy.ca> wrote:
> > Hi Amitay,
> >
> >  I think I may have figured this out. My AD started out as a 2003 SBS
> > system so the schemas are a bit different. Looking in the rpcdce code
> > for DNS I see that dnsserver_init_serverinfo
> > (rpc_server/dnsserver/dnsutils.c ) is called and starts looking for
> >
> > CN=MicrosoftDNS,DC=DomainDnsZones,...,
> >
> > My schema does not have that, the closest I could find is something that
> > looks like this:
> >
> > dn:
> > DC=DomainDnsZones,DC=example.local,CN=MicrosoftDNS,CN=System,DC=example,DC=local
> > objectClass: top
> > objectClass: dnsNode
> > instanceType: 4
> > whenCreated: 20060831201837.0Z
> > uSNCreated: 8166
> > showInAdvancedViewOnly: TRUE
> > name: DomainDnsZones
> > objectGUID: aee468f7-e2bd-457d-b15d-63572897fe62
> > objectCategory:
> > CN=Dns-Node,CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=example,DC=local
> > dNSTombstoned: FALSE
> > dc: DomainDnsZones
> > whenChanged: 20120424001126.0Z
> > uSNChanged: 9014
> > dnsRecord:: BAABAAXwAABa3QYAAAACWAAAAADgAzcAwKipCw==
> > dnsRecord:: BAABAAXwAABa3QYAAAACWAAAAAC0aDYAwKhCAQ==
> > dnsRecord:: BAABAAXwAABa3QYAAAACWAAAAAC0aDYAwKhYAQ==
> > distinguishedName:
> > DC=DomainDnsZones,DC=example.local,CN=MicrosoftDNS,CN=Sy
> >  stem,DC=example,DC=local
> >
> >
> > So my question is shouldn't I get a different error or some other indication that samba doesn't
> > handle the schema? As a followup, should samba handle the schema? The client can talk to the SBS server just fine.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Greg
> 
> Hi Greg,
> 
> The older versions of window server (2003 and older) created the DNS
> containers under CN=System in the domain partition, whereas the newer
> windows server (2008+) creates separate application partitions for
> DNS. DNS RPC server uses DNS partitions to store the DNS zone
> information. But for querying purposes, dlz_bind9 module and internal
> DNS server both can read records from CN=System in domain partition.
> DNS RPC server can be easily modified to support CN=System for DNS
> information. Patches are welcome! ;-)
> 
> Amitay.

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