[Samba] Dynamic DNS and bind_dlz

[Rowland Penny]

On Mon, 19 Dec 2016 22:21:56 +0100
Marc Muehlfeld via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Hi Mark,
> 
> Am 19.12.2016 um 21:25 schrieb Mark Nienberg via samba:
> > I'm trying to troubleshoot why our workstations have stopped
> > dynamically registering their ip addresses in our AD using bind_dlz
> > setup. It worked for a couple of months and now does not. I
> > realized I have a basic question about how it is supposed to work.
> > 
> > Do the workstations (after getting a dynamic address from the dhcpd
> > server) contact the AD DC directly with the information? Or does
> > dhcpd register the address with bind and then bind notifies the DC?
> > 
> > If it is dhcpd -> bind -> DC, then can someone show a sample
> > dhcpd.conf file?
> 
> The Windows default is that the client tries to register itself in the
> AD DNS zone. If you haven't disabled the setting on your Windows
> domain members, it should work. To verify, see:
> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Testing_Dynamic_DNS_Updates
> 
> Let me know if you have a different problem that is not described in
> our troubleshooting section and that is not solvable by:
> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/BIND9_DLZ_DNS_Back_End#Reconfiguring_the_BIND9_DLZ_Back_End
> 
> Apart from that, you can configure dhcpd to register the client in the
> AD DNS zone - but this is not part of Samba and thus not part of our
> documentation.

You might want to reconsider that statement ;-)

Rowland