[Samba] named ( bind 9.9.4 ) fails to start

[Maton, Brett]

It appears to have healed itself, I tried to samba-tool update which failed
with record doesn't exist.

Querying DNS again is now returning the SOA record pointing at dc01.

Thanks again Rowland for averting my crisis!


On 27 September 2016 at 11:31, Maton, Brett <matonb at ltresources.co.uk>
wrote:

> Thanks Rowland,
>
>   You saved me from a world of pain, I've now got named back up and
> running and also accessible via windows DNS GUI.
>
>   the SOA record still says ns=dc03.. which is strange and the only place
> dc03 exists in the ouput of
>
> samba-tool dns query localhost mydomain.com @ ALL
>
> Is this something I can fix in the windows DNS GUI or do I need to do
> something with like FSMO ?
>
> Which btw (samba-tool fsmo show) lists everything as being owned by dc01
>
> Thanks again BTW
>
> On 27 September 2016 at 10:20, Rowland Penny via samba <
> samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 27 Sep 2016 08:53:24 +0100
>> "Maton, Brett" <matonb at ltresources.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi Rowland thanks for your response.
>> >
>> > I'm running samba 4.5.0rc1 on CentOS 7.2
>> >
>> > I've dumped the DNS records, and it doesn't appear to have any SRV or
>> > NS records.
>> >
>> > Also the SOA record is pointing at the wrong server dc03 instead of
>> > dc01.
>> >
>> > I'm pretty sure it can be fixed, but I don't know how or what to do
>> >
>>
>> OK, try restarting Samba, then Bind again.
>> If that doesn't work, try rebooting
>>
>> If that doesn't work, back up your install and try this:
>>
>> Note: do not try anything below without good backups, if your AD goes
>> badly wrong (it shouldn't), don't blame me.
>>
>> samba-tool dns add 127.0.0.1 mydomain.com @ A <dc01 ipaddress>
>>
>> samba-tool dns add 127.0.0.1 mydomain.com @ NS dc01.mydomain.com
>>
>> Check your SOA record again
>>
>> If that works, you might want to try this:
>>
>> samba-tool dns delete 127.0.0.1 mydomain.com @ A <dc03 ipaddress>
>>
>> samba-tool dns delete 127.0.0.1 mydomain.com @ NS dc03.mydomain.com
>>
>> Once everything is working, you might want to think about updating
>> Samba, 4.5.0 has now been released
>>
>> Rowland
>>
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