[Samba] WERR_DNS_ERROR_NAME_DOES_NOT_EXIST when samba_dnsupdate tries to add to _msdcs

[Rick Hollinbeck]

Thanks for your response, Rowland.

As far as newer versions of Debian/Samba, I actually started with Ubuntu 18.04, which had 
Samba 4.7.

But I ran into another problem trying to use it, so I backed off to an older version that I was 
hoping was more stable.
See: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13298

Meanwhile, I did find out more about what was causing this error by looking at the source 
code.

Apparently, samba was expecting _msdcs.office.example.com to be its own "zone" (not just 
part of the AD tree, like it is on the Windows Server side.)
so it returned that error code.

samba-tool dns zonelist dc2 -UAdministrator
did not show it as a "zone" - same on the Windows servers.

By temporarily adding a "zone" for it using:
samba-tool dns zonecreate dc2 _msdcs.office.example.com -UAdministrator

I got the error to go away, but this created a new unwanted entry in the AD hierarchy at the 
same level as "office.example.com",
instead of using the existing AD entry that is under that node.

Thanks for the link http://apt.van-belle.nl/

Maybe I'll give 18.04 or Debian 10 another try to see if it works now.

Should I jump on the bleeding edge with Samba 4.11 and Bind9 (version?)
(I don't see any mention of the bugzilla bug getting addressed.)

What versions of these would you recommend?
(fyi I am also planning to add dhcpd to this server to eventually phase out my old Windows 
Servers.)