Patch to samba_dnsupdate to support net ads dns register in self-test

Richard Sharpe realrichardsharpe at gmail.com
Sun May 15 18:22:24 UTC 2016


On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Rowland Penny <repenny241155 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 15/05/16 19:08, Richard Sharpe wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 11:03 AM, Rowland Penny <repenny241155 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 15/05/16 18:41, Richard Sharpe wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>
>>>> Attached is a surprisingly simple patch to add an NS record to the dns
>>>> file produced for self test.
>>>>
>>>> There is another small change that is required in the Samba4.pm file
>>>> to use this that I could merge with this patch if people desire.
>>>>
>>>> However, first lets discuss this patch to see if it is the correct way
>>>> to do this.
>>>>
>>> Hi Richard, before I make myself look a fool (well a bigger fool than I
>>> already am ) by posting on list, is your patch doing the same as what
>>> this
>>> line would do in dns_update_list:
>>>
>>> ${IF_RWDNS_DOMAIN}NS ${DNSDOMAIN}
>>> ${HOSTNAME}
>>
>> This is not a silly question at all, so I have added back samba-technical.
>>
>> 1. I do not know.
>>
>> 2. I suspect that we do not want an NS record there, but if we do,
>> they it would be a simpler way to achieve what I am trying to do.
>
>
> Hi Richard,
>
> from my testing, it does need to be there and I sent a patch to add it, I
> then found that Andrew Bartlett has a similar patch with others he is
> working on. Because of this, my patch went nowhere, I didn't mind because at
> that time Andrew was working on a bigger problem which hopefully would have
> meant the internal DNS server would make use of the NS record that a
> secondary joined DC would add.
>
> This happened nearly six months ago and nothing has happened yet, if my (or
> Andrews similar) patch was added, each DC would have it is own SOA (like a
> Windows DC), but only if you use Bind9

Ahhh, this is useful info.

It seems that we need this for several reasons then :-)

I don't care whose patch makes it in. I simply care that it gets in.

-- 
Regards,
Richard Sharpe
(何以解憂?唯有杜康。--曹操)



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