[Samba] Internal DNS listen address

John Gardeniers jgardeniers at objectmastery.com
Wed Oct 7 22:35:28 UTC 2015


Hi Alex,

Sorry but I'm confused by your response. You refer to a share definition 
but my question is about the DNS service.

regards,
John


On 08/10/15 08:55, Alex Winzer wrote:
> Hello
>
> On 07.10.15 23:35, John Gardeniers wrote:
>> Is it possible to have Samba4 internal DNS listen only on specific IP 
>> address(es)? We have 2 IP addresses on our DC and don't want the 
>> Samba4 DNS listening on one of them as it is to be used for an 
>> independent BIND DNS service. For those who may be wondering why, 
>> it's because Samba4's DNS doesn't do everything we want or need and 
>> using BIND_DLZ really isn't any better for us and I don't care to get 
>> into a discussion of that.
>
> You should try "hosts allow" inside a share configuration.
> This let's samba ignore other IP-Adresses. You even can setup one or 
> more IP-ranges with "hosts allow = 192.168.15., 192.168.16., 127". 
> Don't forget the point "." at the end. "127" is for "localhost" one 
> can also use. Sometime the syntax is supposed to be somthing like 
> "hosts allow = 192.168.1. 192.168.255. 127". Difference is now decimal 
> point, just a space. You can try this out with testparm.
>
> I wish you luck
> Alex
>




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