[Samba] multiple dns forwarders

[Rowland Penny]

On 19/03/14 10:39, mourik jan heupink wrote:
> Hi,
>
> To make our AD more robust, I'd like to provide more than one dns 
> forwarder, like for example:
>
> dns forwarder = 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4
>
> However, this seems to break dns resolution completely (and without 
> logging errors in the logs!):
>
> # Host test.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
>
> With only one forwarder things work:
>
> $ test.com has address 208.64.121.161
>
> Am I really allowed to specify only one forwarder? And if I really 
> cannot enter two ip's, should samba not log an error?
>
> Regards,
> MJ
>
If you are using the internal DNS, you can only have one forwarder, if 
you need more than one, you will have to use bind.

Rowland