[Samba] Samba4 -> Windows 200x DNS Migration

Adam Tauno Williams awilliam at whitemice.org
Mon Dec 17 07:38:28 MST 2012


On Thu, 2012-12-13 at 15:58 -0500, Gaiseric Vandal wrote:
> Windows 200x AD DC's do not require that the DNS master is on a WIn 2003 
> AD server.   You need a BIND9 compatible server with dynamic updates 
> preferably enabled.   If dynamic updates are not enabled then when a 
> Windows machine joins the DC it will dump out DNS records that need to 
> be added to the DNS master.
> As long as the Samba4 DNS server support dynamic updates it should work 
> fine for supporting other domains

No, my question was about adding a Windows 200x DNS server to the mix.
If the DNS records registered on the Samba DNS server will replicate /
transfer.

>From other reading it appears that this *should* happen, so I believe I
have answered my question.

> On 12/13/12 13:56, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > Has anyone been able to migrate DNS from a Samba4 DC to a Windows 200x 
> > server?
> > I've looked around the wiki, etc... and haven't found any pertaining 
> > to moving DNS between platforms.

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