[Samba] resolv.conf setup and DNS issue

[Tim]

I think, that will hit the nail. I will set this tomorrow. Makes sense to me.

What about you?

Am 30. Januar 2015 20:19:56 MEZ, schrieb Rowland Penny <rowlandpenny at googlemail.com>:
>On 30/01/15 19:05, Tim wrote:
>> I'm happy to see that our "samba pros" do not share the same point of
>view. :-)
>>
>> In Marcs link, as far as I can see, number 3 points to Rowlands
>solution while number 2 seems to be Marcs preferred solution.
>>
>> Today I changed DNS settings on my DCs to Rowlands solution
>(127.0.0.1) and an issue I had with sysvolcheck seems to gone.
>>
>> So what best practise does the samba team have?
>>
>> @Marc: The topic seems to be more important than I initially thought.
>So thanks for putting this on your list to do.
>>
>> Am 30. Januar 2015 16:10:11 MEZ, schrieb "L.P.H. van Belle"
><belle at bazuin.nl>:
>>> So if i did read right . ..
>>>
>>> In my case..
>>> I have 2 DC ( with bind9 dns DLZ ) and i have 2 proxy servers with
>DNS
>>> (bind9) slaves for the DC's.
>>>
>>> I should point my /etc/resolv.conf of the DC's also to the slave dns
>>> servers?
>>> and in case of just 2 dc's without slave dns servers,
>>> point the DC1 to DC2 dns and DC2 to DC1 dns ?
>>> If thats the case i have to change my scripts ;-)
>>>
>>>
>>> Greetz,
>>>
>>> Louis
>>>
>>>> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>>>> Van: mmuehlfeld at samba.org
>>>> [mailto:samba-bounces at lists.samba.org] Namens Marc Muehlfeld
>>>> Verzonden: vrijdag 30 januari 2015 15:33
>>>> Aan: Rowland Penny; samba at lists.samba.org
>>>> Onderwerp: Re: [Samba] resolv.conf setup and DNS issue
>>>>
>>>> Am 29.01.2015 um 21:36 schrieb Rowland Penny:
>>>>> I just use 127.0.0.1 on each DC, after all, the DC should
>>>> use itself for
>>>>> DNS and if something has gone wrong, having another DC to
>>>> ask may not be
>>>>> any use.
>>>>
>>>> If you're having more than one DC, then you should not use the own
>DNS
>>>> as primary on a DC. It can cause problems like DNS islanding.
>>>>
>>>> Some DNS best practices:
>>>> http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2010/07/17/friday-mail
>>>> -sack-saturday-edition.aspx#dnsbest
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> We should mention this on the "Join as DC" page and somewhere
>>>> on the DNS
>>>> pages, too. I'll put this on my list.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Marc
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>
>I loved this bit: '(This is where the arguments usually start)' :-D
>
>Hmm, what I think it means is:
>
>If you have 2 DC's (in my case 192.168.0.2 & 192.168.0.3)
>
>you should have in /etc/resolv.conf on 192.168.0.2
>
>search example.com
>nameserver 192.168.0.3
>nameserver 127.0.0.1
>
>and on 192.168.0.3
>
>search example.com
>nameserver 192.168.0.2
>nameserver 127.0.0.1
>
>Rowland
>
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