[Samba] member server nslookup

Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org
Sun Oct 9 13:03:27 UTC 2016


On Sun, 09 Oct 2016 07:51:56 -0500
Bob of Donelson Trophy via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> I just transfered fsmo roles from one DC to my newer DC and all went
> well. Thank you Samba team!! Great documentation, BTW. 
> 
> My domain (basically) consists of one ADDC, one member server and two
> W10 clients and one W7 client. 
> 
> While setting up the newer DC had been running some nslookup on the
> DC's and decided to run nslookup on my member server and do not know
> if I have discovered and possible problem or not. 
> 
> On the member server, running nslookup returns: 
> 
> root at dtmbr01:~# nslookup dtmbr01
> Server:        192.168.16.49
> Address:    192.168.16.49#53
> 
> Name:    dtmbr01.dtshrm.dt
> Address: 192.168.16.53         <<<< note: this is the member server ip
> address 
> 
> root at dtmbr01:~# nslookup 192.168.16.53
> Server:        192.168.16.49
> Address:    192.168.16.49#53
> 
> ** server can't find 53.16.168.192.in-addr.arpa.: NXDOMAIN 
> 
> Does this mean I need to add reverse dns for the member server to the
> DC? 
> 

Yes, they are not added automatically

Rowland



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