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

[Rowland Penny]

On Thu, 8 Jun 2017 22:45:11 +1000
Amitay Isaacs <amitay at gmail.com> wrote:

> > What does the internal dns server do ? where does it get the root
> > servers from ?
> >
> 
> Samba's internal dns server is an authoritative dns server and it's
> not a recursive resolver.  It will resolve names only for the domains
> defined in AD database.
> 
> If you want to use internal dns server as a recursive resolver, then
> you have to provide a dns server which does actual resolving (samba
> configuration option "dns forwarder").  Then internal dns server will
> forward all the queries which it cannot resolve using the domains in
> the AD database to this dns server.

Bind9 needs forwarders setting as well

> 
> 
> > Is there some reason not to use the 'RootDNSServers' zone with
> > Bind9 ?
> >
> 
> Is there some reason why BIND should?  The root dns servers are fairly
> static.
> 

It seems strange to have the zone in AD and not use it and I have never
seen it documented anywhere that it isn't used by either of the DNS
servers.

Rowland