[Samba] FW: DNS record info (samba-tool)

[Stuart Naylor]

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-----Original message-----
> From:Stuart Naylor <stuartiannaylor at thursbygarden.org>
> Sent: Tuesday 8th April 2014 21:16
> To: Günter Kukkukk <linux at kukkukk.com>
> Subject: RE: [Samba] DNS record info (samba-tool)
> 
> Brilliant, glad about that as zones pretty much done on set up and no worry about a restart.
> 
> Great that adding records to a zone doesn't as restarting samba for that each time would be a bit strange in production.
> 
> Gunter apols to ask you again but you do seem to be a wealth of infomation.
> 
> With samba-tool and dns entries the only documented dns add is something like
> 
> 
> samba-tool dns add SAMBA1.SAMBA4.LAN 1.168.192.in-addr.arpa 32 PTR SAMBA1.SAMBA4.LAN --username=administrator
> 
> Am I confused as the cli presents this samba-tool dns add <server> <zone> <name> <A|AAAA|PTR|CNAME|NS|MX|SRV|TXT> <data>
> 
> So the above is server=SAMBA1.SAMBA4.LAN zone=1.168.192.in-addr.arpa name=32 PTR data=SAMBA1.SAMBA4.LAN
> 
> To be honest it was just 'name' that threw me.
> 
> root at samba1:~# samba-tool dns delete
> Usage: samba-tool dns delete <server> <zone> <name> <A|AAAA|PTR|CNAME|NS|MX|SRV|TXT> <data>
> 
> would be samba-tool dns delete SAMBA1.SAMBA4.LAN 1.168.192.in-addr.arpa 32 PTR SAMBA1.SAMBA4.LAN --username=administrator
> 
> which it was.
> 
> So you can have duplicate 'names' as long as the data points to the correct entry?
> 
> Stuart
> 
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> -----Original message-----
> > From:Günter Kukkukk <linux at kukkukk.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday 8th April 2014 20:26
> > To: Stuart Naylor <stuartiannaylor at thursbygarden.org>
> > Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
> > Subject: Re: [Samba] DNS record info (samba-tool)
> > 
> > Am 08.04.2014 20:31, schrieb Stuart Naylor:
> > > Thanks Gunter,
> > > 
> > > I am keeping to the internal, I am not a fan of bind in this scenario.
> > > 
> > > Gunter so even though it lists that is just an RPC call but actually the working record needs a restart?
> > > 
> > > I am trying to do a webmin module for Samba4 rather than use any RSAT tools.
> > > 
> > > The DNS part is a little confusing :)
> > > 
> > > Stuart 
> > 
> > there are (at least) 2 ways to manipulate samba (windows) dns entries:
> >   - using dce/rpc calls to modify the AD directory directly
> >     (e.g. used by samba-tool, MS DNS Manager GUI, ...)
> >   - using dynamic DNS
> >     (e.g. ISC nsupdate, MS ipconfig /registerdns, ...)
> > 
> > When samba starts, the internal dns server reads all currently defined
> > zones (from ADS) - and the containing dns records - into its _own_ data structures.
> > 
> > When a new zone is added, the dce/rpc tools will show it,
> > but the internal dns must be restarted.
> > 
> > When you then add new records to any now existing zone, the dns server
> > will also track them. So no samba restart is needed.
> > 
> > Cheers, Günter
> > 
> > > 
> > >  
> > >  
> > > -----Original message-----
> > >> From:Günter Kukkukk <linux at kukkukk.com>
> > >> Sent: Tuesday 8th April 2014 19:15
> > >> To: Stuart Naylor <stuartiannaylor at thursbygarden.org>; Marc Muehlfeld <samba at marc-muehlfeld.de>; samba at lists.samba.org
> > >> Subject: Re: [Samba] DNS record info (samba-tool)
> > >>
> > >> Am 08.04.2014 19:08, schrieb Stuart Naylor:
> > >>> root at samba1:~# samba-tool dns query SAMBA1.SAMBA4.LAN 1.168.192.in-addr.arpa @ ALL --username=administrator       Password for [SAMBA4\administrator]:
> > >>>   Name=, Records=2, Children=0
> > >>>     SOA: serial=2, refresh=900, retry=600, expire=86400, minttl=3600, ns=samba1.samba4.lan., email=hostmaster.samba4.lan. (flags=600000f0, serial=2, ttl=3600)
> > >>>     NS: samba1.samba4.lan. (flags=600000f0, serial=1, ttl=3600)
> > >>>   Name=32, Records=1, Children=0
> > >>>     PTR: SAMBA1.SAMBA4.LAN (flags=f0, serial=2, ttl=900)
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> @ ALL seems to do it.
> > >>> trying to use samba-tool and not the RSAT tools.
> > >>>
> > >>> any more info anyone?
> > >>>
> > >>> Thanks
> > >>>
> > >>> Stuart
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>  
> > >>>  
> > >>> -----Original message-----
> > >>>> From:Marc Muehlfeld <samba at marc-muehlfeld.de>
> > >>>> Sent: Tuesday 8th April 2014 17:55
> > >>>> To: Stuart Naylor <stuartiannaylor at thursbygarden.org>; samba at lists.samba.org
> > >>>> Subject: Re: [Samba] DNS record info (samba-tool)
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Hello Stuart,
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Am 08.04.2014 18:08, schrieb Stuart Naylor:
> > >>>>> But if I wanted to browse and delete a record how do I do it?
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Have you seen
> > >>>> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/DNS_Administration
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Regards,
> > >>>> Marc
> > >>>>
> > >>
> > >> Are you using the internal samba dns server?
> > >> If so, you need to restart samba after adding a dns zone. The zone was
> > >> added with rpc calls to the directory, but the dns server doesn't
> > >> notice this atm .
> > >> Note - also with the bind dlz module, sometimes wrong results have been seen
> > >> after adding a zone. So one might also here need to restart bind/samba.
> > >>
> > >> Cheers, Günter
> > >>
> > >> -- 
> > >>
> > >>
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > 
> >