[Samba] BIND9 and samba4's internal dns server

[Morten Kramer]

On 07/10/2012 10:51 AM, Quinn Plattel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Quick question:  According to the howto at
> http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/HOWTO , you set up BIND9 to use
> samba's internal dns server through the use of the dlz.  It is possible to
> use the internal dns server only and leave out BIND9 altogether?
>
> br,
> Quinn

Yes it's possible,

At the moment it lacks encrypted DNS updates though.


http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/DNS

Also, there's a bug that will freeze the DNS server if there are too 
many unanswered requests by the forwarder.

Apart from that, it runs quite stable here. I set 8.8.8.8 for the 
forwarder (Google DNS).