[Samba] How to update the root hints for bind DLZ

[Rowland Penny]

On Thu, 8 Jun 2017 12:03:45 +1200
Garming Sam <garming at catalyst.net.nz> wrote:

> The RootDNSServers zone is special in a number of ways. It has no SOA
> record for instance, and so there's a lot of special casing around it.
> Looking on a Windows DC, dnscmd /enumzones lists dot as a zone and
> dnscmd /enumrecords . returns the root servers (as well as ..RootHints
> it seems). None of this is our choice of convention unfortunately, but
> it should be fairly simple to make the client tools have aliases for
> these.
> 
> In terms of listing a name during enumeration of zones, the fact
> Windows lists . somehow, but I don't think we do, means there's more
> to be done here. It may just be some more client magic (that they've
> done and we may need to do) but the underlying RPC/C code which lists
> the zone probably shouldn't list any strange aliases that we decide.
> 

I haven't a windows machine handy at the moment, but this Microsoft
webpage clearly shows 'RootDNSServers' as a zone:

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/b25c9775-4ac1-4344-a7b4-3b08ae170fc6/new-dns-records-refused-event-4015-event-4013?forum=winserverDS

Rowland