[Samba] DNS Forwarder again

[Yakov Revyakin]

Thank you, Robert
You understood my waiting.

What is about if I add nameserver line to resolve.conf like this

nameserver ThisSambaDcIp
nameserver 8.8.8.8

and samba dns returns negative answer? Algorithm the same? Second line will
never be used?




On Wed, 31 Mar 2021 at 20:24, Robert Marcano via samba <
samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> On 3/31/21 12:02 PM, Yakov Revyakin via samba wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > Could you help me to understand why my setting for Dns Forwarder doesn't
> > work as waiting?
> > I have:
> > dns forwarder = 8.8.8.8 11.0.0.3
> >
> > This way I can resolve names of samba domain as well as internet names,
> but
> > I can't get resolved names from 11.0.0.3 external AD domain.
> >
> > I thought that google dns is recursive. Any explanation on?
>
> If I understand correctly, you expect responses from both forwarders.
> That isn't how forwarding works. It ask one of them and get a response.
> Positive or negative, it will be the only response to the client. You
> can put more than one there for redundancy.
>
> If you expect a response from 11.0.0.3, when the server first asked
> 8.8.8.8, if it get a negative response, 11.0.0.3 will not be asked, it
> will only if there is a problem (timeout for example) using 8.8.8.8
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > J
> >
>
>
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