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

Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org
Thu Jun 8 09:45:49 UTC 2017


On Thu, 8 Jun 2017 19:35:19 +1000
Amitay Isaacs <amitay at gmail.com> wrote:

> >
> Samba (including internal dns server and bind-dlz module) has no use
> for DC=RootDNSServers zone.
> 
> This zone is created and maintained primarily to interoperate with
> windows AD servers running DNS service.
> 
> I don't see any reason why we need tools to manipulate the entries in
> that zone.  If you are running windows AD server with DNS service,
> you can update the root hints using windows tools.
> 
> Amitay.

Sorry, I have just tried this and I cannot update the records on
windows. Whilst ADSI Edit shows 'DC=h.root-servers.net', it just shows
'There are no items to show in this view'. The DNS Manager doesn't show
the root records.

Rowland




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