[Samba] Switching to Bind from Samba Internal

[Rowland Penny]

On 16/12/14 15:17, James wrote:
> 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
>>>>
>>>
>>
>

To be honest, I am not sure, I just run bind9 on both my DC's

Rowland