[Samba] Authentication to Secondary Domain Controller initially fails when PDC is offline
mathias dufresne
infractory at gmail.com
Wed Dec 2 09:28:15 UTC 2015
2015-11-27 16:43 GMT+01:00 Rowland Penny <rowlandpenny241155 at gmail.com>:
> On 27/11/15 15:24, mathias dufresne wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> 2015-11-27 15:49 GMT+01:00 Rowland Penny <rowlandpenny241155 at gmail.com
>> <mailto:rowlandpenny241155 at gmail.com>>:
>>
>>
>> On 27/11/15 14:30, James wrote:
>>
>> On 11/27/2015 9:16 AM, Rowland Penny wrote:
>>
>> On 27/11/15 13:23, James wrote:
>>
>> On 11/26/2015 11:12 AM, Ole Traupe wrote:
>>
>>
>> Then you re-run your test with only DC2 up
>> and running.
>> Note DNS have need time to be updated if
>> you are using others DNS servers between
>> clients and AD DCs.
>>
>> The SOA RR identifies a primary DNS name
>> server for the zone as the best source of
>> information for the data within that zone and
>> as a entity processing the updates for the zone.
>>
>> The NS resource record is used to notate which
>> DNS servers are designated as authoritative
>> for the zone. Listing a server in the NS RR,
>> it becomes known to others as an authoritative
>> server for the zone. This means that any
>> server specified in the NS RR is to be
>> considered an authoritative source by others,
>> and is able to answer with certainty any
>> queries made for names included in the zone.
>>
>> Much of the above was taken almost verbatim
>> from online Microsoft tech documents. I don't
>> believe that DC's create NS records by default.
>>
>>
>> You mean Samba DCs or DCs in general?
>>
>> I am not sure I understand the above. Do you
>> suggest to create another NS record for the
>> Second_DC, or not to?
>>
>> In the resolv.conf on my member servers both DCs
>> are listed as DNS servers. I like to think that
>> the member servers eventually ask the second DNS
>> server, if the first won't respond. This seems to
>> be reflected by ping taking more than 5 s for the
>> first packet to arrive.
>>
>> BUT what does the second DNS server (Second_DC)
>> reply? Which logon server does it announce?
>>
>>
>> DNS can be very confusing. You do not need to create a
>> NS record for your second DC if the zone is directory
>> integrated. By default the DC is authoritative for
>> that zone.
>>
>>
>> Probably with windows it is, but not with Samba AD, you
>> only get one NS and one SOA. The only authoritative Samba
>> AD DC is the first one, when you join a second DC, it runs
>> the same code that created the SOA during the first DCs
>> provision and because the SOA already exists, it fails.
>>
>> Rowland
>>
>>
>> Yikes! Are you saying DC's with directory integrated zones are
>> not authoritative for them? That means a NS record needs to be
>> created manually for each DC added.
>>
>>
>> Yes, that's about the size of it. no matter how many DCs you join,
>> you only have one NS, the original DC.
>>
>> I have been trying to alter the code, but I am struggling to get
>> another NS record added during the join, it doesn't help that I
>> have no idea what a windows DC SOA record looks like, does each DC
>> have a separate SOA record? or is it like the Samba SOA record and
>> there is only one with multiple NS records?
>>
>> Yes each Windows has SOA record. In fact I expect there is no SOA record
>> really on MS AD. I expect SOA management is something like when a DC
>> receive request for SOA it replies "I am SOA".
>> On MS AD all DC have a NS record. My second mail about that thread from
>> Sunday the 22nd of November is showing different DNS queries I did on MS AD
>> domain (a 2008 r2 domain with only 2 DC, Microsoft DC).
>>
>> Finally I would look into samba_dnsupdate to add creation of NS record. I
>> expect this tool is run when samba starts.
>> Unfortunately I did not find the right option to add to samba_dnsupdate
>> for it really creates DNS entries. Even with kerberos ticket already
>> created before running that command. I received a mail recently about
>> another Samba user using internal DNS for his AD hosted by Samba. This
>> person was facing same issue has me (missing DNS entries, samba_dnsupdate
>> not adding entries). To workaround that issue he modified samba_dnsupdate
>> and he commented that line (line 413):
>> os.unlink(tmpfile)
>>
>> Doing that samba_dnsupdate does not remove tmp file. This tmp file
>> contains nsupdate commands which are launched by samba_dnsupdate.
>> Finally he uses these nsupdate commands from tmp files without -g option
>> and he's DNS entries are now created.
>> I must say I did yet try that process.
>>
>>
> If you follow the 'join' code, you end up at 'add_at_record' in
> sambadns.py. This is run by the initial provision and again when any DCs
> are joined. I have tried adding a check to see if the SOA exists and only
> creating it if it doesn't, otherwise just add the NS records etc, I can add
> the A record for the subsequent DC bit not its NS record. This is what the
> initial SOA record looks like:
>
> dn: DC=@,DC=samdom.example.com
> ,CN=MicrosoftDNS,DC=DomainDnsZones,DC=samdom,DC=example,DC=com
> objectClass: top
> objectClass: dnsNode
> instanceType: 4
> whenCreated: 20151106115624.0Z
> uSNCreated: 3657
> showInAdvancedViewOnly: TRUE
> name: @
> objectGUID: 7ad014c4-c1e9-4cb4-9f0d-96d0272af23d
> objectCategory:
> CN=Dns-Node,CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=samdom,DC=example,DC=com
> dc: @
> whenChanged: 20151122115408.0Z
> dnsRecord: NDR: struct dnsp_DnssrvRpcRecord
> wDataLength : 0x004f (79)
> wType : DNS_TYPE_SOA (6)
> version : 0x05 (5)
> rank : DNS_RANK_ZONE (240)
> flags : 0x0000 (0)
> dwSerial : 0x00000062 (98)
> dwTtlSeconds : 0x00000e10 (3600)
> dwReserved : 0x00000000 (0)
> dwTimeStamp : 0x00377e73 (3636851)
> data : union dnsRecordData(case 6)
> soa: struct dnsp_soa
> serial : 0x00000063 (99)
> refresh : 0x00000384 (900)
> retry : 0x00000258 (600)
> expire : 0x00015180 (86400)
> minimum : 0x00000e10 (3600)
> mname : dc1.samdom.example.com
> rname : hostmaster.samdom.example.com
>
> dnsRecord: NDR: struct dnsp_DnssrvRpcRecord
> wDataLength : 0x001a (26)
> wType : DNS_TYPE_NS (2)
> version : 0x05 (5)
> rank : DNS_RANK_ZONE (240)
> flags : 0x0000 (0)
> dwSerial : 0x00000062 (98)
> dwTtlSeconds : 0x00000384 (900)
> dwReserved : 0x00000000 (0)
> dwTimeStamp : 0x00000000 (0)
> data : union dnsRecordData(case 2)
> ns : dc1.samdom.example.com
>
> dnsRecord: NDR: struct dnsp_DnssrvRpcRecord
> wDataLength : 0x0004 (4)
> wType : DNS_TYPE_A (1)
> version : 0x05 (5)
> rank : DNS_RANK_ZONE (240)
> flags : 0x0000 (0)
> dwSerial : 0x00000062 (98)
> dwTtlSeconds : 0x00000384 (900)
> dwReserved : 0x00000000 (0)
> dwTimeStamp : 0x00000000 (0)
> data : union dnsRecordData(case 1)
> ipv4 : 192.168.0.5
>
> uSNChanged: 29974
> distinguishedName: DC=@,DC=samdom.example.com
> ,CN=MicrosoftDNS,DC=DomainDnsZones,DC=samdom,DC=example,DC=com
>
>
> I can add the NS record for the second DC with samba-tool, but not by
> modifying the 'add_at_record' code.
>
> I tried doing an internet search, but cannot find anything that shows the
> SOA objects in AD for a windows server, so I don't know if windows uses
> separate SOA object records for each DC, or is it just one SOA object
> record (like Samba uses) with an NS record added for each DC.
>
>
> Rowland,
I'll have a look on both MS DC I prepared 10 days ago to see if there is a
LDAP for SOA in MS AD database.
As shown 10 days ago MS DC always reply "I am SOA" when they have DNS
service started which is not mandatory if you have already a DNS
infrastructure (from DCs or any other DNS).
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