[Samba] which DNS backend ?

mathias dufresne infractory at gmail.com
Tue Mar 1 14:37:11 UTC 2016


2016-03-01 15:17 GMT+01:00 Rowland penny <rpenny at samba.org>:

> On 01/03/16 14:07, Reindl Harald wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Am 01.03.2016 um 14:50 schrieb Rowland penny:
>>
>>> On 01/03/16 13:23, Reindl Harald wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Am 01.03.2016 um 11:23 schrieb mathias dufresne:
>>>>
>>>>> Several SOA is easy to design without breaking RFC: as every DNS server
>>>>> in AD is able to modify the zone, every DNS server in AD is SOA. As any
>>>>> DNS server is SOA and only one SOA can be returned, these DNS server
>>>>> must reply "I am SOA".
>>>>> 10 DC running a DNS server.
>>>>> One client asking to DC07 for SOA.
>>>>> DC07 replies "SOA is DC07".
>>>>> One client asking to DC02 for SOA.
>>>>> DC02 replies "SOA is DC02".
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> yes, but that's not a SOA containing two nameservers - period
>>>> nothing else is what i criticized because the term is wrong
>>>>
>>>
>>> OK, lets use 'nslookup' to get the SOA record from my netbook:
>>> This shows that 'dc1.samdom.example.com' is authoritative for the
>>> domain.
>>> Lets change the server that 'nslookup' uses:
>>> Different server, different Authoritative server, *BUT* there is only
>>> one SOA record in AD
>>> Does that convince you ???
>>>
>>
>> there is nothing to convince
>>
>> we are talking about different things
>> i spoke only with my DNS admin hat on
>> that's it
>>
>>
>>
>>
> Well, we are getting somewhere, not sure where though :-)
>
> Normal dns is 99% similar to AD dns, the only difference that I can see,
> is that you can have a SOA record that has multiple authoritative servers,
> but only one at once.


And that do not comes from AD but from the fact the DB is shared (by
opposition to standard-Bind with flat file pushed to slaves).


>
> Rowland
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