[Samba] samba dns

Sketch smblist at rednsx.org
Thu Apr 7 14:28:24 UTC 2016


On Thu, 7 Apr 2016, Sonic wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 5:29 PM, Sketch <smblist at rednsx.org> wrote:
>> There's no need to repoint clients to AD DNS servers if you don't want
>> dynamic DNS registration.
>
> Dynamic DNS registration works with the clients pointing to the
> Unbound cache (at an account with a Windows AD server). The clients
> must be determining what system to register with via DNS records even
> though they don't point to the Windows AD server for DNS resolution.

I'm surprised that works, I always just assumed it dyndns'd to it's DNS 
server.  Maybe Windows is looking up what server to register with in DNS 
(under _msdcs), or via LDAP?



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