[Samba] Internal DNS strangeness in 4.1.16

[Greg Dickie]

Hi Rowland,

    I wanted to try the internal DNS server because the guys have put a
lot of work into it and it seems to mostly work. I have used samba 4
with bind in the past though and that does work. Are you using bind or
bind DLZ with DHCP?

Thanks,
Greg


On Fri, 2015-02-27 at 18:27 +0000, Rowland Penny wrote:
> On 27/02/15 18:15, Günter Kukkukk wrote:
> > Am 27.02.2015 um 17:55 schrieb Greg Dickie:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >>    I have just provisioned a new samba setup with 2 DCs running ISC DHCPd in failover and I’m trying to get it to play nice with samba internal DNS but I’m having some issues.
> >>
> >> 1) I’m using on commit, etc triggers in the dhcpd config to call a script that calls samba-tool to add, delete or update DNS. This script works fine when I call it from the command line as the dhcpd user but when called from the dhcpd daemon it throws a WERR_INTERNAL_DB_ERROR which is scary. That is coming from the client I guess. What is the best way to figure out what is going on server side. I increased the log level but I get crazy amounts of info that does not seem relevant.
> >>
> >> 2) I added a reverse zone 80.16.172.in-addr.arpa and when I add records to it all lookups fail with samba saying it’s not authoritative for the lookup.I figured maybe it was a class B vs Class C thing so I created a 16.172.in-addr.arpa zone and tried that. It’s better, now I just get a SERVFAIL like it can’t find it. If I do a samba-tool query ALL I see records in the AD.
> >>
> >> I haven’t played with 4 since the early days, it’s come a long way. nice.
> >>
> >> Any ideas for the problems above?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Greg
> >>
> >> -- 
> >> Greg Dickie
> >> just a guy
> >> 514-983-5400
> >>
> > afair - the internal dns server loads all zones on *startup only*.
> > It allows to add new zones - and entries inside - but will "serve"
> > them only after a restart (of samba).
> >
> > Cheers, Günter
> >
> > PS - i don't know whether this behaviour has changed recently...
> 
> I totally missed that the OP was using the internal dns server, I could 
> never get dhcp to update records using the internal dns server and 
> believe me I tried. I just installed bind9 and that worked correctly.
> 
> Rowland
> 

-- 
Greg Dickie
514-983-5400
just a guy