How to get DNS replication working properly?

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Sun, 2012-06-24 at 10:33 +0100, Mike Howard wrote:
> On 24/06/2012 08:35, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > On Fri, 2012-06-22 at 17:32 +0200, Morten Kramer wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >>
> >> I've been trying to get DNS replication to work for a few days now.
> >>
> >>
> >> What I've done:
> >
> >> - Compile Samba (Beta1/Beta2/recent git pull) under Centos 6.2 x64
> >> Any help will be greatly appreciated!
> > Could you both please try
> >
> > git://git.samba.org/abartlet/samba.git fix-dns-replication
> >
> > If you start with that, for a new join, it should do the replication of
> > the DNS partitions.  Otherwise, follow the steps you took.
> >
> > Please let me know if this works, so I can get this in to master to
> > assist others.
> >
> > Andrew Bartlett
> >
> I tried the two patches you posted the other day and using the internal 
> dns server got replication to work.
> 
> There was a minor issue of the secondary dc's details were not added to 
> the primary's dns at all. Easily added manually though. The SOA doesn't 
> include the secondary ns info
> 
> Thanks for the hard work..

Thanks for the confirmation!

The reason that the secondary DC isn't enrolled in DNS is that the
internal DNS server does not support dynamic updates (yet, Kai is still
working on it). 

Andrew Bartlett

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