[Samba] Samba AD not resolving external names

Rowland penny rpenny at samba.org
Sat Sep 5 10:35:18 UTC 2020


On 05/09/2020 09:53, Peter Pollock via samba wrote:
> I have just set up a new AD and am having a little success with it, but DNS
> resolution is a little slow.
>
> I'm looking into why that is and tried an ns lookup for google.com and got
> the answer SERVFAIL on my AD server.
>
> The query was then passed to my next nameserver (google's own dns), which
> handled the query.
>
> Is this correct behaviour? I've not seen SERVFAIL before
>
> itadmin at dc02:~$ nslookup google.com
> ;; Got SERVFAIL reply from 192.168.4.5, trying next server
> Server:         8.8.8.8
> Address:        8.8.8.8#53
>
> Non-authoritative answer:
> Name:   google.com
> Address: 216.58.195.78
> ;; Got SERVFAIL reply from 192.168.4.5, trying next server
> Name:   google.com
> Address: 2607:f8b0:4005:80b::200e

Is this on the DC or a client ?

On my DC I get this:

adminuser at kdsdc:~$ nslookup google.com
Server:        192.168.0.10
Address:    192.168.0.10#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    google.com
Address: 216.58.204.46
Name:    google.com
Address: 2a00:1450:4009:807::200e

Rowland





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