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

Rowland penny rpenny at samba.org
Sun Jun 6 10:04:10 UTC 2021


On 06/06/2021 10:57, Adam Pribyl via samba wrote:
> 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


Possibly, but do not blame me if something goes wrong.

Rowland





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