[Samba] How to Properly Configure Samba's Internal DNS
Marco Shmerykowsky
marco at sce-engineers.com
Sat Jan 30 13:48:52 UTC 2021
I have what though was a working Samba4 AD setup.
However, in trying to troubleshoot a user's issues while
connecting via a VPN, I begun to question if DNS
is properly setup up.
Each linux server has the following entries in
resolv.conf:
search ad-domain.company.com
nameserver ip-of-FSMO-server
Each linux server has a hosts file with an entry:
unique-ip-address machine#.ad-doamin.company.com machine#
However, if I do nnslookup -> set type=SRV ->
_ldap._tcp.ad-domain.company.com.
instead of getting the results shown here:
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setting_up_Samba_as_a_Domain_Member#Resolving_SRV_Records
I get:
Server: ip-of-FSMO-server
Address: ip-of-FSMO-server#53
_ldap._tcp.ad-domain.company.com service = 0 100 389
machine1.ad-domain.company.com.
_ldap._tcp.ad-domain.company.com service = 0 100 389
machine1.ad-domain.company.com.
Further, if I try pinging hostnames on the FSMO-server, I only get
positive
results on 3 of 4 of my servers:
ping ad-domain.company.com -> success
ping machine1.ad-domain.company.com -> success
ping machine2.ad-domain.company.com -> success
ping machine3.ad-domain.company.com -> success
ping machine4 -> fails with unknown host
ping machine1 -> success
ping machine2 -> success
ping machine3 -> success
ping machine4 -> fails with unknown host
If I try the same from "machine4", it all returns positive results.
As far as I can tell, hosts, resolve.conf is correct on all four
machines.
Not sure where the configuration error is & after much googling,
I'm not sure where to even start looking.
Any ideas? Thank You.
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