Samba4 DNS - Some objects grayed out in Windows DNS tool

[Amitay Isaacs]

Hi Brian,

On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 12:00 AM, Brian C. Huffman
<bhuffman at etinternational.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> I've seen this before, but I'm getting ready to migrate to Samba4 for
> directory services in my company and it makes me a little wary not knowing
> why this happens.  I see some entries at the top of my Windows DNS tool that
> are folders instead of standard entries and then some more that are folders
> that are grayed out.  In all cases these should be standard host records but
> somehow they're also listed here as folders (I'm not referring to the system
> ones like "_sites", "_tcp", etc).  Each folder also has a correct matching
> host record.  I believe in the past I've been able to make some of the gray
> entries go away by restarting samba.  But currently I'm not able to get rid
> of them all.
>
> Can someone explain if this is expected behavior?  Is there any harm in it?
>
> Thanks,
> Brian

Usually if you refresh the zone, all the greyed entries + directory
entries disappear and the zone is displayed correctly. I am aware of
this problem, but haven't figured out why windows considers some of
the records are containers and are shown as folders. If you can send
me the capture of network traffic when you are using windows DNS
management tool, I should be able to find out why this happening.

Amitay.