[Samba] adding Windows client reverse dns entries

[Rowland Penny]

On Sat, 05 Nov 2016 08:43:05 -0500
Bob of Donelson Trophy via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> On 2016-11-05 08:21, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 05 Nov 2016 08:07:18 -0500
> > Bob of Donelson Trophy via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> > 
> > On 2016-11-05 07:46, Mike Lykov via samba wrote:
> > 
> > 05.11.2016 16:09, Bob of Donelson Trophy via samba пишет: 
> > 
> > Once again, reading here and there and I am confused.
> > 
> > I thought the W clients (both W7 and W10) reverse dns PTR records
> > where added by the ADDC automatically.
> > 
> > This mornings testing (nslookup of client IP addresses) is not
> > finding clients via their IP addresses. (Forward lookups via
> > hostname work fine.) 
> > What samba version do you use?
> > Early samba4 versions does not support (or have a buggy support)
> > for auto-register PTR recors, as far i remember.
> > 
> > In my 4.1.9 it is also not working, if it fixed  - I'm interested
> > in what version.
> > 
> > --
> > Mike
> 
> V4.5.0 on Ubuntu 16.04.1LTS for the DC's 
> 
> V4.3.11 on Ubuntu 16.04.1LTS on member 
> 
> Hi Bob, try looking in syslog, is there anything like this:
> 
> samba_dlz: disallowing update of signer=WIN7-PC\$\@SAMDOM.EXAMPLE.COM
> 
> Rowland 
> 
> No, none like that. I see other samba_dlz entries of a positive
> nature. 
> 
> Thoughts? (Could this have anything to do with my recent dns issue? Is
> some record missing?) 
> 

If you are not getting any 'disallowing update' messages but are
getting 'allowing update' ones, then it looks like your windows clients
are not trying to update the reverse zone.

Rowland