[Samba] Internal DNS CNAME not working

[Wayne Andersen]

Samba 4.0.0

I am running all of these commands from the PDC DC1.

/etc/resolv.conf
domain mydomain.com
nameserver 127.0.0.1

smb.conf does have a
dns forwarder = 192.168.1.2

samba-001 the actual host name, and also a PDC, in the same domain.
I would like to have the alias my-server point to samba-001.

I added a CNAME record:
bin/samba-tool dns add 127.0.0.1 mydomain.com my-server CNAME samba-001 
-Uadministrator

I can query it.

bin/samba-tool dns query 127.0.0.1 mydomain.com my-server CNAME
Password for [administrator at MYDOMAIN.COM]:
   Name=, Records=1, Children=0
     CNAME: samba-001. (flags=f0, serial=6, ttl=900)

Host finds it.

host -t CNAME my-server.mydomain.com
my-server.mydomain.com is an alias for samba-001.

I cannot ping it, it is not resolving properly.

ping samba-001,  resolves to the proper IP
ping samba-001.mydomain.com,  resolves to the proper IP
ping my-server,  ping: unknown host
ping my-server.mydomain.com,  ping: unknown host

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Wayne Andersen
System Administrator
Clima-Tech Corporation
208-947-1849