[Samba] Reverse domain

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 09/03/2015 05:01 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
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> On 09/03/2015 04:55 PM, Rowland Penny wrote:
>> On 03/09/15 21:38, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>> How is the reversed domain handled, or is it not.  Rowland, you did 
>>> not have that in your sample you cobbled together.
>>>
>>> In /usr/share/samba/setup/named.conf there is:
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>>> zone "123.168.192.in-addr.arpa" in {
>>>         type master;
>>>         file "123.168.192.in-addr.arpa.zone";
>>>         update-policy {
>>>                 grant ${REALM_WC} wildcard 
>>> *.123.168.192.in-addr.arpa. PTR;
>>>         };
>>> };
>>>
>>> But that raises more questions than answers.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>> First and foremost, I am sure I have already told you this, you must 
>> create the reverse zone, it is not created for you, use samba-tool.
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> I will look at the wiki for this.  thaks

And a more discerning search took me to:

https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/DNS_administration#Administering_DNS_on_Linux.2FUnix

Got my reverse zone working for static server.

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>> You do not add the reverse zone to the name flat files it goes in AD.
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>> And finally, the dhcp set up you say I 'cobbled together' works, it 
>> leads to logs like this:
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> I meant your named.conf that you said you took from mulitple files. 
> Sorry.  Did not at all mean to imply a hack job.
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