[Samba] Fwd: AD DC generating a lot of dns requests

Rowland penny rpenny at samba.org
Wed May 26 11:12:14 UTC 2021


On 26/05/2021 11:29, hummbla via samba wrote:
> Alright, so making a seperate subdomain for my domain controller seems like
> a really good idea (going on the todo list ;)).
>
> Is there any way for me to find out which (probably all PCs) pc is the
> "original" source of these dns requests? (Is there a seperate log, or can i
> enable displaying it?)
>
> I will probably have to rejoin all pcs into the Domain when setting it up
> in the subdomain, could this cause problems for domain accounts on these
> devices/will they still recognize that its the same domain afterall?
> Or will setting up the subdomain and changing the samba config file be
> enough?


You cannot change the domain name, so you will have to create a new one. 
This will also entail joining the clients to the new domain and recreate 
all your users and groups.

Rowland





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