[Samba] Switching to Bind from Samba Internal

[James]

Rowland,

     In a multi DC environment must all DC's run Bind that serve DNS? Is 
it sufficient to just have the SOA run Bind? Thanks.

On 12/16/2014 10:07 AM, Rowland Penny wrote:
> On 16/12/14 14:43, James wrote:
>> Rowland,
>>
>>     Thanks for the reply. I believe you're right. It appears the zone 
>> information is retrieved from '/usr/local/samba/private/named.conf'? 
>> Correct? 
>
> Well sort of, if you run the update command, I 'think' that the 
> correct file will be created for you, I am uncertain about the file 
> creation because I have never used the builtin dns server, I have 
> always used Bind9.
>
> This is my named.conf:
>
> # This DNS configuration is for BIND 9.8.0 or later with dlz_dlopen 
> support.
> #
> # This file should be included in your main BIND configuration file
> #
> # For example with
> # include "/var/lib/samba/private/named.conf";
>
> #
> # This configures dynamically loadable zones (DLZ) from AD schema
> # Uncomment only single database line, depending on your BIND version
> #
> dlz "AD DNS Zone" {
>     # For BIND 9.8.0
>     database "dlopen /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/bind9/dlz_bind9.so";
>
>     # For BIND 9.9.0
>     # database "dlopen 
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/bind9/dlz_bind9_9.so";
> };
>
> You will probably have to change the paths.
>
> Rowland
>
>> I notice I do not have 'named.conf'. I have 'named.conf.update'.
>>
>> On 12/16/2014 9:21 AM, Rowland Penny wrote:
>>> On 16/12/14 13:54, James wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>>     Looking to switch to Bind. Currently using Ubuntu 12.04 with 
>>>> Samba 4.1.13 compiled from tar. I'm a little confused on creating 
>>>> the localhost zone file section. Do I replace 'localhost' with the 
>>>> IP address of my Samba DC or do I really use the localhost address? 
>>>> This same question applies to the '0.0.127.in.addr.arpa' zone file. 
>>>> I guess I'm having a hard time understanding where I enter my 
>>>> actual zone name of my domain. If I need to clarify further please 
>>>> advise. Thanks.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi, have a look here: 
>>> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Changing_the_DNS_backend
>>>
>>> I think that you are trying to set Bind up with a flatfile backend, 
>>> please don't do this, it will only end in tears :-)
>>>
>>> Rowland
>>>
>>
>

-- 
-James