[Samba] SAMBA4 API

Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org
Tue Nov 14 17:32:27 UTC 2017


On Tue, 14 Nov 2017 11:18:04 -0600
Taylor Hammerling <thammerling at tcsbasys.com> wrote:

> by modify I mean add, change and/or remove DNS records (depending on
> the values passed to the API).
> Also, yes I mispoke, we would only be modifying the records on one
> DC, and replication would take care of the rest.
> 

OK, rather than trying to re-invent the wheel, you will probably find
it easier to script around the 'nsupdate' utility from Bind.

If you look here, you will find a bash script that uses it:

https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Configure_DHCP_to_update_DNS_records_with_BIND9

There is also the samba_dnsupdate python script that uses it.

Rowland



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