[Samba] samba_dnsupdate: could not talk to any default name server

Steve Thompson smt at vgersoft.com
Thu Jan 9 06:11:56 MST 2014


On Thu, 9 Jan 2014, David Keegel wrote:

> I also haven't reviewed the code to see whether there is anything
> to remove IP addresses which were valid but are no longer valid.
> For example, if samba adds an IP address of your server to the
> DNS and then later you change that IP address, samba will (try to)
> add the new IP address with a DNS update, but will it (try to)
> remove the old IP address with a DNS update?

No, I have found out that Samba does not remove IP addresses that are
no longer valid. I filed a bugzilla about it some time ago, but it
appears to have been ignored. You have to delete the invalid entries
manually.

Steve


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