Removing the DNS entry for a member server when leaving a domain ...

[Kai Blin]

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On 2013-03-01 22:15, Richard Sharpe wrote:

Hi Richard,

> I have been asked to make the net ads leave command remove the
> DDNS entry it adds when we join a domain.
> 
> As an aside, I see that Microsoft, at least with Win7 does not seem
> to use RFC compliant RRs when deleting records. It uses CLASS: NONE
> when the RFC says to use CLASS: ANY.

Do you have a network capture of that?

> In any event, it would seem that I can reuse the existing 
> infrastructure passing an extra parameter to net_update_dns, 
> DoDNSUpdate and friends to indicate that an Add or Delete is
> required. It seems that we should delete the DNS record before we
> delete the machine account in net_ads_leave as well.
> 
> Any comments?

Please don't. lib/addns is a mess already, and it's not really covered
by test code either.
We've got the start of a new DNS library with an IDL-based parser in
libcli/dns. It's by no means complete yet, but really is the code base
we should be adding new things to.

Cheers,
Kai

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