[Samba] Samba4 and Bind9

[Quinn Plattel]

Jep, I had exactly the same issue.  I thought I also had to have a full dns
configuration to work before I added samba4.  Discovered after that samba4
had it's own dns database that bind9 just connected to it through the use
of a dlz library.

br,
Quinn

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 2:17 AM, Amitay Isaacs <amitay at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Steve,
>
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 7:17 AM, Steve Thompson <smt at vgersoft.com> wrote:
> > CentOS 6.2, Samba 4.0.0beta3, Bind 9.9.1-P1.
> >
> > I have a workking Bind9 installation which includes several different
> zone
> > files. Foward and reverse lookups work fine.
> >
> > When I include
> >
> >         include "/usr/local/samba4/private/named.conf";
> >
> > in the named.conf, named will no longer start:
> >
> > Jul  9 15:01:47 s6a named[9857]: samba_dlz: started for DN
> > DC=test,DC=cornell,DC=edu
> > Jul  9 15:01:47 s6a named[9857]: samba_dlz: starting configure
> > Jul  9 15:01:47 s6a named[9857]: samba_dlz: Failed to configure zone
> > 'test.cornell.edu'
> > Jul  9 15:01:47 s6a named[9857]: loading configuration: already exists
> > Jul  9 15:01:47 s6a named[9857]: exiting (due to fatal error)
> >
> > because of a conflict between an already included zone file and the
> Samba4
> > domain (test.cornell.edu).
> >
> > What is the recommended best practice to fix this situation? I don't
> believe
> > that I should have to add the offending zone's contents to
> dns_update_list;
> > this seems like a hack to me. But then I don't have a lot of mileage with
> > samba_dnsupdate yet.
> >
> > Steve
>
> DLZ module is used to dynamically load the zone (the ones configured
> in Samba AD) information. So you cannot have two different sources for
> the same zone. Please comment the file based forward zone for domain
> (test.cornell.edu). And if you have configured reverse zone in AD,
> then comment the file based reverse zone as well.
>
> Amitay.
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