Samba 4 internal DNS question

Marc Muehlfeld samba at marc-muehlfeld.de
Mon Feb 4 14:17:12 MST 2013


Am 04.02.2013 22:10, schrieb Marc Muehlfeld:
> After I tried that against my samba DC I wondered, that every host can start a
> zone transfer. On all my other zones I have configured, that transfers are
> only allowed from slave servers.
>
> I tried adding "allow-transfer { 192.168.29.4; };" to
> /usr/local/samba/private/named.conf, that was generated during provision. But
> then named don't start any more.


I forgot to say, that I also have the global option

options {
    ...
    allow-transfer { none; };
    ...
};

in my named.conf. But then the Bind DLZ module doesn't respect this, or do I 
miss something?




> Is there a special reason that everyone have to be able to start a zone
> transfer against the samba domain?
>
> Wouldn't it be better for security reasons to disable zone transfers per default?


Regards,
Marc



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