[Samba] Dual headed DC

[Allen Chen]

If you have a router between vlans, you just put you DC on any one of 
the vlans, DC should work better on one NIC.
In my environment, I have 3 DCs(with single NIC) on 2 vlans(vpn 
connection) and 200 machines located on the other 7 vlans. Everything 
just works.

Allen

On 8/17/2018 11:57 AM, Luke Barone via samba wrote:
> If you want o do it with one DC (not recommended for redundancy), then
> carry on.
>
> Setup the DC as per normal. Ensure that it is listening on both interfaces,
> and have your clients pointing to it for its DNS server. Assuming the DC is
> at 192.168.0.2 and 192.168.1.2, both on a /24 subnet, you should have two
> DHCP servers, and you should be able to hand out a specific DNS server to
> clients.
>
> Then, it will Just Work (TM). As long as that IP address is accessible. If
> you want to expand it, or have room to grow, then you'd get multiple DCs
> (remember, it can run as a VM too on cheap hardware), then you can start
> using Sites and Subnets, which will assign certain subnets to certain DCs
> (by default).
>
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 8:28 AM Andrea Venturoli via samba <
> samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
>> On 8/17/18 11:58 AM, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
>>
>>> That's a problem to start with, you really are better off with multiple
>>> DC's. I personally would use at least three in your case, one main DC
>>> and another DC in each site. This would ensure that you would have
>>> some fall back if a DC died.
>> Let's for a moment assume:
>> _ this is a test setup;
>> _ my network is very small (read 5-10 clients);
>> _ I cannot afford 3 DCs;
>> _ I really want to use internal DNS (unless a showstopper comes up);
>> _ I know I'm going with a subobtimal setup;
>> _ I won't come and whine here if the overall thing is slow and/or not so
>> resilient.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>> In any case, do you have a pointer to some documentation I can use
>>>> (especially WRT to DNS)?
>>> Yes, it is called the Samba wiki :-)
>>>
>>> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Main_Page
>> Thanks.
>> I think I've read almost it all several times in the past.
>> However, as I said, checking it once again, I was not able to find the
>> information I'm looking for.
>> Could you please point me to the pages I should be looking into in order
>> to configure an AD DC DNS for use on two subnets?
>>
>>
>>
>> If I added a second interface to the DC right now, I guess it would
>> answer equally on both interfaces.
>>
>> However, I suppose possibly:
>> _ client 192.168.0.x should be told dc.mydom.it=192.168.0.z, while
>> _ client 192.168.1.y should be told dc.mydom.it=192.168.1.z.
>>
>> If this assumption is right, I don't have an idea on how to achieve this
>> with internal DNS.
>>
>> Perhaps this assumption is wrong, and the distinction should be made
>> earlier when the SRV records are queried?
>> Again, how?
>>
>>
>>
>> I read in MS documentation about "IP Addresses mapping to Site Names",
>> but again, you said sites are not strictly required, so I'm trying to
>> figure out how this would work without them.
>>
>>
>>
>>    bye & Thanks
>>          av.
>>
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