[Samba] Cleaning up old DC DNS records
Patrick Lepore
patrick.lepore at gmail.com
Thu Sep 14 13:59:06 UTC 2017
Ok, I'll clean up those records manually.
On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 5:42 AM, Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-09-05 at 18:39 -0400, Patrick Lepore via samba wrote:
> > Hi, I demoted a running domain controller by running the samba-tool
> demote
> > command on the running system to be demoted and there's still some DNS
> > entries for the old one kicking around. It's still listed under _msdcs
> and
> > also _kerberos._udp and _ldap._tcp.
> >
> > Should I manually remove them?
>
> Yes.
>
> > If so, is there a list of spots to look in
> > for DNS entries of old DCs?
>
> The remove-other-dead-server option looks for records pointing at the
> AD record of the demoted DC.
>
> > Also, does the fact that these entries weren't removed indicate I had
> > something misconfigured on the to-be-removed system or I screwed up the
> > demotion procedures?
>
> No.
>
> If you used the --remove-other-dead-server option, it would have
> removed them. The online removal isn't as complete.
>
> I've scoped out the work (on behalf of a client) to make the dynamic
> records expire, to have a cleanup and to make the online cleanup more
> thorough, but for now that is how it is.
>
> Sorry,
>
> Andrew Bartlett
>
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