[Samba] Order of Dcs resolv.conf

[Rowland Penny]

On Tue, 10 Apr 2018 16:08:41 +0200
Marco Gaiarin via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Mandi! Rowland Penny via samba
>   In chel di` si favelave...
> 
> > If the first IP in /etc/resolv.conf isn't the DCs own,
> > samba_dnsupdate will connect to the other DC and use its kerberos
> > key and, surprise,surprise, it doesn't work. The wiki page was
> > written to prevent 'islanding', the only problem with that is, you
> > don't get 'islanding' on an AD DC.   
> 
> ...what do you mean with 'islanding'?
> 
> Apart the join phase, why not put localhost (eg 127.0.0.1) as first
> DNS in DC?
> 

Try reading this:

http://www.itgeared.com/articles/1046-dns-client-settings-for-active/

'islanding' can occur when a DC cannot replicate dns records to
another DC and the records then get out of sync.

Rowland