[Samba] dnsupdate_nameupdate_done - Failed DNS update

[Rowland Penny]

On Fri, 23 Sep 2016 17:38:35 +0100
Jonathan Hunter via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> OK, the code from samba_dnsupdate :
> nsupdate_cmd = lp.get('nsupdate command')
> [....]
>         cmd = nsupdate_cmd[:]
>         cmd.append(tmpfile)
>         ret = subprocess.call(cmd, shell=False, env=env)
> 
> And
> $ sudo /usr/local/samba/bin/samba-tool testparm
> --parameter-name=nsupdate\ command
> /usr/bin/nsupdate -g
> 
> But, I don't have anything called nsupdate anywhere on my machine,
> which I guess is the problem.
> $ find / -name nsupdate 2>/dev/null
> $
> 
> I thought that nsupdate was something for using BIND, not internal
> DNS; maybe I'm wrong there.
> 

Well, wrong and right ;-)
Wrong, in that you need it for the updates and right that it comes from
Bind.

You need to install it, it is called bind9utils on debian.

Rowland