DNS zones replication

[Amitay Isaacs]

Hi Daniele,

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 8:11 PM, Daniele Dario <d.dario76 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Amitay,
>
> On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 09:20 +1100, Amitay Isaacs wrote:
>> Hi Matthieu,
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 7:17 AM, Matthieu Patou <mat at matws.net> wrote:
>> > Hi Amitay,
>> >
>> > On 31/01/2012 05:22, Amitay Isaacs wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi Daniele,
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 9:02 PM, Daniele Dario<d.dario76 at gmail.com>
>> >>  wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Hi Samba team,
>> >>> I've some (maybe stupid) questions.
>> >>>
>> >>> I have two samba4 AD DCs on the same domain.
>> >>> At the moment one of them also acts as DNS for my network with bind9_dlz
>> >>> (kdc01) while the other (kdc02) no.
>> >>> kdc01 runs on a VM while kdc02 is a physical machine.
>> >>>
>> >>> Would it be possible (now or in the future) to replicate also the
>> >>> DomainDnsZones and ForestDnsZones partitions between the DCs to allow
>> >>> the bind_dlz module to work also on the second DC?
>> >>
>> >> If one of the DC is samba is others are windows, then DNS partitions
>> >> will replicate
>> >
>> > Did you understood why is it so ? Is it because MS DC notify samba about
>> > changes on those partitions ?
>>
>> I need to test with W2K3 DC and check what happens after dcpromo. I'm almost
>> done with the dns upgrade script. I'll come back to replication after that.
>>
>> Amitay.
>
> did you do any progresses for dns zones replication?
>
> Thanks,
> Daniele.
>

I haven't had much time to spend on the DNS replication issue. I am waiting for
feedback from Matthieu regarding W2K3 behaviour in this regard.

Matthieu, did you get a chance to go through the network captures and figure
out if there is any RPC call involved? Or W2K3 magically sets msDs-hasMasterNCs
for DNS partitions? And we need to do the same?

Amitay.