[Samba] How to switch from internal DNS to Bind

James lingpanda101 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 30 20:42:38 UTC 2015


On 12/30/2015 3:29 PM, Rowland penny wrote:
> On 30/12/15 19:48, James wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>>     I'm attempting to switch from the internal DNS to Bind. This is 
>> for my Samba test environment on a VM running Samba 4.3.1 on Ubuntu 
>> server 12.04.1. Installed Samba using all the defaults.
>>
>> ./configure
>> make
>> make install
>>
>> Pulled up the wiki link
>>
>> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Changing_the_DNS_backend#Changing_from_Samba_Internal_DNS_to_BIND_DLZ 
>>
>>
>> Not sure if this is the correct start page. After the introduction I 
>> see the link "Setup Bind". I figure I need to start there? So I click 
>> the link and in the introduction I see another link for 
>> "Setup_a_basic_BIND_installation". Maybe this is where I should 
>> begin? I install BIND via. the repository.
>>
>> apt-get install bind9
>>
>> The wiki then says "*make sure that it was compiled with the 
>> '--with-gssapi' and '--with-dlopen' options*". I check by using
>>
>> named -V | grep "gssapi"
>>
>> '--with-gssapi=/usr'
>>
>> Is this sufficient or do I need the absolute path to 
>> --with-gssapi=/usr/include/gssapi?
>>
>> named -V | grep "dlopen"
>>
>> Returns nothing.  Can I add these options after the fact or do I need 
>> to uninstall and compile on my own before proceeding any further? 
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> What version of bind9 ?
> later versions have dlopen builtin, but I seem to remember (from when 
> I used 12.04) having to build bind9. Could you upgrade to 14.04, this 
> will definitely give you a working bind9
>
> Rowland
>
>
It's 9.8.1.

I decided to compile myself seeing as this is just a test environment. 
I'll make note of possibly needing a newer distro in order to avoid 
building in the future. Thanks.

-- 
-James




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