[Samba] Samba4 -> Windows 200x DNS Migration

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Mon Dec 17 13:53:18 MST 2012


On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 09:38 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> 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.

They are meant to, but the note in the WHATSNEW is there for a reason -
we have not always had this work perfectly, so just keep an eye out for
dragons. 

Andrew Bartlett

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