[Samba] Authentication to Secondary Domain Controller initially fails when PDC is offline

[mathias dufresne]

Hi Ole,

You want to change SOA of your AD domain?

Here some working command:
samba-tool dns update <working DC> samba.domain.tld \
samba.domain.tld SOA \
'oldSOA.samba.domain.tld. hostmaster.samba.domain.tld. 58 900 600 86400
3600' \
'newSOA.samba.domain.tld. hostmaster.saba.domain.tld. 59 900 600 86400
3600' -k yes

This needs you performed some kinit before using an account able to modify
this entry (by default only administrator is able to that I expect).

This must be done for the two DNS zones of your domain:
samba.domain.tld + _msdcs.samba.domain.tld

First number of replacement record (here "59") is serial number.
Replication of change seemed to work without changing that serial number
but as DNS love to rely on it, changing that serial should be a good idea.

Hoping this helps...

Cheers,

mathias


2015-11-18 16:44 GMT+01:00 Ole Traupe <ole.traupe at tu-berlin.de>:

>
> It is DNS related.
>>
>> What is the best way of dealing with this?
>>>
>> The *best way* is a HA solution for your DNS Servers, but its expensive.
>>
>> The DNS client (resolver) caches the srv records for 15 minutes aka 900
>> seconds.
>>
>> ipconfig /flushdns drops the cache. Reboot does the same.
>>
>> On server side you may set shorter TTL for the server records, but then
>> you have more DNS traffic. On small netwoks (sites up to 20 clients, no
>> wifi) I have good experience with a TTL of 180.
>>
>
> Harry, I tried this - unsuccessfully.
>
> I have TTL settings in a) the SOA and b) the NS record of the FQDN and the
> _msdcs.FQDN sections in my Windows RSAT DNS console. None of these 4
> entries I can change: I get something like "The Source Of Authority (SOA)
> cannot be updated. The record already exists."
>
> Do you have an idea how to accomplish this? Currently the setting is 1h,
> which is pretty long.
>
> Ole
>
>
>
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