Samba-tool dns commands??

[Amitay Isaacs]

Hi Charles,

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 7:38 AM, Charles Tryon <charles.tryon at gmail.com> wrote:
> OK, this one really has me scratching my head...
>
> On my migration test server, I've suddenly run into a problem where I can't
> run the samba-tool "dns" command to add entries to the DLZ DNS tables.
>
> This is on a system where I have run a domain samba3upgrade.  The generated
> DNS system is running just fine, and I can actually bring up the Microsoft
> DNS Administrative tools to view or add entries in the DNS zone, but if I
> try to enter them from the command line, I get the following error:
>
>> sudo /usr/local/samba/bin/samba-tool dns add localhost usa.om.org dummy A
> 10.4.1.102 --password=something
> ERROR(runtime): uncaught exception - (-1073741801, 'Memory allocation
> error')
>  File
> "/usr/local/samba/lib/python2.6/site-packages/samba/netcmd/__init__.py",
> line 167, in _run
>    return self.run(*args, **kwargs)
>  File "/usr/local/samba/lib/python2.6/site-packages/samba/netcmd/dns.py",
> line 848, in run
>    dns_conn = dns_connect(server, self.lp, self.creds)
>  File "/usr/local/samba/lib/python2.6/site-packages/samba/netcmd/dns.py",
> line 36, in dns_connect
>    dns_conn = dnsserver.dnsserver(binding_str, lp, creds)
>
>
> I then went to the Wiki page for the samba-tool to check to see if I'd
> missed some change in parameters for the command, and discovered that the
> "dns" command is NOT LISTED as one of the commands for samba-tool?
>
> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba-tool-external
>
> Did something change, or is this just an oversight in the Wiki page???  Am
> I missing something?
>
>
> I am doing a clean build-from-scratch from git to see if this affects
> the problem.

What version are you using? This problem has been fixed in master.

Amitay.