[Samba] How to remove DNS names with Records=0

[Adam Pribyl]

On Sun, 6 Jun 2021, Rowland penny via samba wrote:

> On 04/06/2021 21:38, Adam Pribyl via samba wrote:
>> I have exactly the same thing like described here:
>> https://www.reddit.com/r/samba/comments/nh1zqc/samba_dlz_staled_dns_records_cannot_be_deleted/ 
>> 
>> In "samba-tool dns query server.mydomain.loc mydomain.loc @ ALL" I see 
>> names like this:
>> 
>>  Name=sofk-puppetboard01, Records=0, Children=0 -------------> this one
>>  Name=sofn-ap001, Records=1, Children=0
>>    A: 192.168.0.5 (flags=f0, serial=405, ttl=0)
>> 
>> in reddit a solution is that there should be a
>> 
>> samba-tool dns cleanup
>> 
>> but I have nothing like that in my installation, neither I found it 
>> documented anywhere else like 
>> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/DNS_Administration
>> 
>> I am on samba 2:4.7.6+dfsg~ubuntu-0ubuntu2.23 with BIND9_DLZ as AD.
>> 
>> How should one remove these "empty" names?
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> Adam Pribyl
>> 
> Upgrade Samba, the 'cleanup' option was added at 4.8.0
>
> Rowland

Hm, tell it to Ubuntu LTS... samba-tool is a python "wrapper" after all. 
Maybe it could be used from 4.8.0?

Adam Pribyl