[Samba] DNS PTR update fails if IP is reused by another client

Roy Eastwood spindles7 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 15 21:40:51 UTC 2021


On Sun, 12 Dec 2021, 16:59 Andrew Bartlett via samba, <samba at lists.samba.org>
wrote:
> DNS has two levels of tombstones, because clients so often do a
> delete/add cycle it would quickly fill the DB (this used to happen,
> long ago I was helping out a school with 100,000 DNS tombstones).
>
> So objects become DNS 'deleted' but still owned (for SD purposes) by
> the original name, then those get scavenged and become properly deleted
> (so no squatting on that name).
>
> Andrew Bartlett

So how do I allow the record to be created?   I am still getting these
error messages.   How long is it before the records get scavenged
automatically?

Thanks,
Roy


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