[Samba] Secure dynamic update failure with internal DNS

James lingpanda101 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 10 14:07:31 UTC 2015


On 11/9/2015 3:09 PM, Jeffrey Earl wrote:
> I've experienced the same issue on Samba 4.3.1 compiled against Centos 
> 6.7. It appears to be a known issue. There's a recent bug report on 
> bugzilla: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11520
>
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 1:20 PM, James <lingpanda101 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:lingpanda101 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I't appears all versions of Samba 4.2.X allow secure updates. It's
>     transitioning to any version of Samba 4.3.X that prevents secure
>     updates. Looking at the Wireshark captures of a successful update
>
>     https://www.cloudshark.org/captures/79e72c42de44
>
>     I see two transactions concerning the TKEY. I also see the update
>     request from the client signed with the TSIG.
>
>     Looking at a failed update
>
>     https://www.cloudshark.org/captures/44f706b2cc61
>
>     I see three transactions concerning the TKEY. I also am missing
>     the TSIG  with the update request from the client. I do see a TSIG
>     with the TKEY exchange from the DC.
>
>     The TSIG as far as I know, should not be sent in the additional
>     records section of the TKEY exchange. Secure update process fails
>     during the TKEY exchange. This causes the client to repeat the
>     whole DNS query exchange.
>
>     The client should send the dynamic update request immediately
>     after the TKEY exchange has taken place. The lack of the TSIG with
>     the client update explains why Samba reports 'Update not allowed
>     for unsigned packet' on the second update request.
>
>
>     -- 
>     -James
>
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Thanks Jeffrey. Added info to the bug report.

-- 
-James



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