[Samba] AD RODC not being used because of missing DNS entries?

[Rowland Penny]

On Sat, 20 Oct 2018 13:58:15 +0200 (CEST)
tomict via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> 
> > Just one thought, where does the nameserver on DC2 point ?
> > Is it to DC1 ?
> > or itself, DC2 ?
> 
> > If it is pointing to itself, try pointing it at DC1
> 
> > Rowland
> 
> The Nameserver on DC2 points to the ip address of DC1
> 
> Tom
> 

OK, I have checked from Windows and my dns looks like this:

DC2-|
    |- Forward Lookup Zone
       |- samdom.example.com
       |  |- _sites
       |  |  |- Default-First-Site-Name
       |  |     |- _tcp
       |  |        |- _gc - dc1
       |  |        |- _gc - dc2
       |  |        |- _ldap - dc1
       |  |        |- _ldap - dc2
       |  |        |- _kerberos - dc1
       |  |        |- _kerberos - dc2
       |  |
       |  |- _tcp
       |  |  |- _gc - dc1
       |  |  |- _gc - dc2
       |  |  |- _kerberos - dc1
       |  |  |- _kerberos - dc2
       |  |  |- _kpasswd - dc1
       |  |  |- _kpasswd - dc2
       |  |  |- _ldap - dc1
       |  |  |- _ldap - dc2
       |  |  |- _ldaps - dc1
       |  |
       |  |- _udp
       |  |  |- _kerberos - dc1
       |  |  |- _kerberos - dc2
       |  |  |- _kpasswd - dc1
       |  |  |- _kpasswd - dc2
       |  |
       |  |- DomainDnsZones
       |  |  |- _sites
       |  |  |  |- Default-First-Site-Name
       |  |  |     |- _tcp
       |  |  |        |- _ldap - dc1
       |  |  |        |- _ldap - dc2
       |  |  |- _tcp
       |  |  |  |- _ldap - dc1
       |  |  |  |- _ldap - dc2
       |  |
       |  |- ForestDnsZones
       |  |  |- _sites
       |  |  |  |- Default-First-Site-Name
       |  |  |     |- _tcp
       |  |  |        |- _ldap - dc1
       |  |  |        |- _ldap - dc2
       |  |  |- _tcp
       |  |  |  |- _ldap - dc1
       |  |  |  |- _ldap - dc2
       |
       |- _msdcs.samdom.example.com
          |- dc
          |  |- _sites
          |  |  |- Default-First-Site-Name
          |  |     |- _tcp
          |  |        | _kerberos - dc1
          |  |        | _kerberos - dc2
          |  |        | _ldap - dc1
          |  |        | _ldap - dc2
          |  | 
          |  |- _tcp
          |  |  |- _ldap dc1
          |  |  |- _ldap dc2
          |  |  |- _ldap dc1
          |  |  |- _ldap dc2
          |  |
          |- domains
          |  |- 39158xxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxx-xxxxxxxxxxx
          |  |  |- _tcp
          |  |     |- _ldap - dc1
          |  |     |- _ldap - dc2
          |  |
          |- gc
          |  |- _sites
          |     |- Default-First-Site-Name
          |     |  |- _tcp
          |     |     |- _ldap - dc1
          |     |     |- _ldap - dc2
          |     |
          |     |- _tcp
          |     |  |- _ldap - dc1
          |     |  |- _ldap - dc2
          | 
          |- pdc
             |- _tcp
                |- _ldap - dc1
                |- _ldap - dc2

Rowland