[PATCH] Use samba-tool to add DNS entries with samba_dnsupdate

Andreas Schneider asn at samba.org
Tue Mar 3 01:02:48 MST 2015


On Tuesday 03 March 2015 13:08:24 Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 09:25 +0100, Andreas Schneider wrote:
> > On Monday 02 March 2015 14:00:49 Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > > Andreas,
> > 
> > Andrew,
> > 
> > > Can you explain why you couldn't use nsupdate in make test?  Either way,
> > > I think this might unblock your work on resolv_wrapper.
> > 
> > nsupdate is sending a lookup for the SOA record to the dns server but the
> > response fromt our internal DNS server is incorrect so it fails.
> 
> ...
> 
> > This is the reason why I was not able to use our internal DNS server with
> > resolv_wrapper.
> 
> Thank you very much for the background!
> 
> Given all that, do you think it would be worthwhile using my modified
> samba_dnsupdate script in --use-samba-tool mode, until the nsupdate mode
> can be fixed, on the basis of at least testing the rest of the system?

I think it would make sense to test both! We should probably have a target 
which uses one or the other ...


Untested code is broken code :)


	-- andreas

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