[Samba] Authentication to Secondary Domain Controller initially fails when PDC is offline

[Rowland penny]

On 10/12/15 07:32, L.P.H. van Belle wrote:
>> I have been doing some testing with dns and with the internal dns
>> server, even if you add another NS to the SOA record, you only have one
>> NS. It seems the only way to get each DC to think it is a NS, is to use
>> bind9.
>>
> Hai
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> A good to know, some versions of samba, i dont know which do have this problem also if u use bind9_dlz.
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> So, my question to the readers, if you use samba4 DC with bind9_DLZ and you have 2 or more DC's, check all you zones of you have also the same number of  NS servers.
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> I know from my install, i had only 1 DC as NS record, i manualy added the second the zones.
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> Greetz,
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> Louis
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You will only have 1 DC as NS, nothing adds the second (or any other 
subsequent DCs) NS record to the SOA records.

Rowland