Samba4 internal DNS problems - fresh start

[Mike Howard]

On 21/05/2013 08:17, Kai Blin wrote:
> On 21/05/13 08:58, Mike Howard wrote:
>
> Hi Mike,
>
>> I'm currently having problems with Samba4's internal DNS. Originally, it
>> was working, in that client's dhcp addresses were being updated. Then it
>> seemed to stop.
>
> There seems to be some issue with updating records that I didn't quite 
> identify yet. It only seems to bite us on updating records that 
> already exist, and basically happen in the middle of the process. So 
> the old record gets deleted ok, but no new record is added.
> I suspect that's also what is causing your problem here.
>

Yes, I do have the client's name but no ip data associated.

>> Is there a easy way to delete all the internal dns stuff and reinstall
>> it afresh? Obviously, I don't want to lose my domain data, users,
>> computers, groups, gpo's etc?
>> I did try going back to the bind9 backend, which worked, but I would
>> like to get the internal backend working and suspect it's my
>> installation at fault.
>
> The Bind9 DLZ module and the internal server use the same data to do 
> their job. If one works and the other doesn't then your AD data is 
> fine and there's a bug in the DNS implementation.
>
>
Ah, so a 'samba_upgradedns --dns-backend=BIND9_DLZ' copies the internal 
server's data from 'sam.ldb.d' to the 'dns' directory for bind9 to work 
with and presumably vice versa?

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