How to get DNS replication working properly?

[Mike Howard]

On 24/06/2012 15:11, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> 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
> Was this with a Samba4 joining Samba4, or Samba4 joining Windows?
>
> I've been continuing with testing, and in make test, the Samba4 ->
> Samba4 case fails quite badly (does not even create the separate
> partitions, puts some values in the main partition).
>
> I'll dig into this some more, but having a test case in make test makes
> this easier (not easy, but easier).
>
> Andrew Bartlett
>
I've just ran through this again, samba4 joining samba4, this time with 
--dns-backend=BIND9_DLZ and this also worked.
The only requirement was the fixing up of the file permissions on the 
keytab.

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