[Samba] Demote a dead PDC: residuals in "DNS" console

[Rowland Penny]

On 11/11/15 19:38, Ole Traupe wrote:
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> Am 11.11.2015 um 16:56 schrieb Rowland Penny:
>> On 11/11/15 15:16, Ole Traupe wrote:
>>> Having joined a new Secondary DC to my domain and manually created 
>>> the DNS A record and the CNAME record as described here
>>> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Check_and_fix_DNS_entries_on_DC_joins,
>>> I find that my PDC also has an A record in "_msdcs.my.domain.com", 
>>> which the new Secondary DC has not.
>>>
>>> Is this a problem? Should I create this record as well?
>>>
>>> Ole
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>> Try rebooting the secondary DC and see what happens, I had this last 
>> week and couldn't see how to create all the missing dns records 
>> (there were a few) and for some reason they wouldn't create (or more 
>> likely, I didn't know the special incantations), did an internet 
>> search and found Louis had this problem back in April, he fixed his 
>> by rebooting. So I rebooted and all the missing records appeared.
>>
>> Rowland
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> I see, thank you!
>
> So every DC should definitely have an A record in two places:
> a) the domain zone
> b) the _msdcs zone
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> Correct?
>

so I believe

Rowland