[Samba] Another peculiar behaviour, this time with BIND 9 DNS with DLZ

[Anantha Raghava]

Hi,

Good news is that Samba has healed itself. Now the it is working normally.

Thanks & regards,

Anantha Raghava


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Thanks & Regards,


Anantha Raghava

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On 20/07/18 6:27 AM, Anantha Raghava wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> String of peculiar behavior continues...
>
> Samba Version 4.7.5, Bind Version 9.8
>
> No. of Samba-AD-DC Servers : 4 (dc1, dc2, dc3 & dc4). All FSMO roles 
> are on dc1.
>
> All the while all things were perfect. Yesterday, due to some reason, 
> the BIND Service on dc2 stopped. This resulted in none of the other 
> domain controllers could resolve the names. On dc2, only named service 
> was stopped but samba-ad-dc was running.
>
> When we cleared the errors and restarted named service and samba-ad-dc 
> service on dc2, name resolution started working on dc2 and also on all 
> other domain controllers. None of the records, zones are lost. To test 
> again, we stopped the named & samba-ad-dc service on dc2, and name 
> resolution stopped on dc1, dc3 & dc4 as well. We start the named 
> service on dc2, name resolution on all other servers start.
>
> Is this normal? We understand that in case one domain controller stops 
> for some reason, all services should work properly from other servers.
>
> How do we troubleshoot & resolve this?
>
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> Thanks & Regards,
>
>
> Anantha Raghava
>
>
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