roothints - internal DNS [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Thu May 22 22:09:15 MDT 2014

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I was surprised to see this posting appear in the mailing list 10 days after I posted it. I had presumed that it was swallowed by a black hole (-:. In any case, I have resolved the issue.
My domain/forest was not at the correct functional level - I got the vital hint while trying to setup bind. 
So I blew away the SAMBA box, removed all traces from the AD, elevated the domain/forest to Windows Server 2003, reinstalled Centos and SAMBA from scratch and all appears to be working correctly.

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From: samba-technical-bounces at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-technical-bounces at lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of Thamm, Russell
Sent: Tuesday, 13 May, 2014 4:15 p.m.
To: 'samba-technical at lists.samba.org'
Subject: roothints - internal DNS [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

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Hi,

I have setup a CentOS 6.5 box with SAMBA 4.1.7 as a second DC on a standalone Windows network that has a 2003 server as PDC.

Internal DNS is not working correctly. Name resolution using nslookup works but I am unable to connect with the RSAP DNS tool or the 2003 server DNS tool.

I think the problem is related to roothints.

# /usr/local/samba/bin/samba-tool dns roothints sambabox.mydomain.local ...
Password for[administrator at MYDOMAIN.LOCAL]:
ERROR(runtime : uncaught exception - (9714, 'WERR_DNS_ERROR_NAME_DOES_NOT_EXIST'
...

# /usr/local/samba/bin/samba-tool dns zoneinfo sambabox.mydomain.local .

produces the same error.

I get the following in the SAMBA log when I try to connect using the DNS tool:

DnssrvEnumRecords2 struct DnnssrvEnumRecords2
  in struct DnssrvEnumRecords2
      dwClientVersion   :DNS_CLIENT_VERSION_DOTNET (393216)
      dwSettingFlags    :0x00000000 (0)
      dwServerName      :*
        pwszServerName    : 'sambabox.mydomain.local'
      pszZone           :*
        pszZone           : '..RootHints'
      pszNodeName       : *
        pszNodeName       : '.'
      pszStartChild     :*
        pszStartChild     :''
      wRecordType       : DNS_TYPE_NS(2)
      fSelectFlag               : 0x00010018
      ...
      pszFiletrStart    :NULL
      pszFilterStop     :NULL
[2014/05/13] 08:49:59:925900, 1, pid=4542, effective(-,0), real(0,0)
../librpc/ndr.c:333(ndr_print_function_debug)

        DnssrvEnumRecords2: struct DnssrvEnumRecords2
          out struct DnssrvEnumRecords2
            pdwBufferLength     :*
               pwdBufferLength    :0x00000000 (0)
            pBuffer             :*
               pBuffer            :NULL
            result              :WERR_DNS_ERROR_NAME_DOES_NOT_EXIST

This is a standalone network with NO connection to anything else including the Internet.

I also have a Centos 6.4 box with SAMBA 4.06 that was setup as a PDC (full provisioning - different standalone network) and the RSAT DNS tool can connect to this OK.

I can query roothints and get zoneinfo for "." on this box.

Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

Cheers
Russell

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Password for[administrator at MYDOMAIN.LOCAL]:
ERROR(runtime : uncaught exception - (9714, 'WERR_DNS_ERROR_NAME_DOES_NOT_EXIST'
...

# /usr/local/samba/bin/samba-tool dns zoneinfo sambabox.mydomain.local .