[Samba] Samba 4 custom ports for DNS in 2020?

[Rowland penny]

On 16/12/2020 20:20, Alex Orlov via samba wrote:
>>> So, the question is not about why I need it, but if samba supports
>>> these absolute normal modern requirements in 2020 or not.
>>>
>>> And if not, could anyone say if there are plans to implement it?
>> No and No.
> ….
>> Finally, while we have offered per service port configuration in the
>> past, we are trying to reduce the number of configuration options in
>> Samba to keep things manageable and to ensure that it is harder for
>> users to accidentally create un-tested and unworkable installations.
>   
> If you are talking about ports that belong only to Samba, I can agree with you.
>   
> However, if we are talking about external service ports, for example DNS,
> than this is a very controversial decision. It was controversial in 2015
> see your post  https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2015-February/189631.html
> and it is very controversial in 2020.
>   
> Of course, I am not a member of Samba Team, however, I hope that these arguments
> someone from the Team will find useful:
>   
> 1) A good server software must be flexible to allow build different solutions.
Granted, but between boundaries.
> 2) To use different services on one interface we use ports, but not virtual interfaces.
As Samba is trying to emulate a Microsoft Active Directory domain, we 
are limited by the ports that Microsoft uses.
> 3) When we use services we (in almost all configurations I saw) provide host:port.
Agreed, but, again we are limited by what Microsoft uses.
> So, it is absolutely normally to make DNS forwarding not to IP, but to IP:port.
Not in AD and I cannot really remember seeing anything to do with AD 
that suggested using other than the ports Microsoft uses.
> 4) If we follow your logic that users can create un-tested and unworkable installations
> we need to forbid system administrators to edit configuration files.
You can create untested installations, that is how you find they may be 
unworkable, it is just that I have seen most of the unworkable 
installations.

Rowland