[Samba] reverse DNS not working for some reason ...

Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org
Tue Nov 2 20:32:44 UTC 2021


On Tue, 2021-11-02 at 15:25 -0500, Patrick Goetz via samba wrote:
> As per the Wiki instructions for setting up a Samba DC, I ran
> 
>    # samba-tool dns zonecreate samba-dc 1.168.192.in-addr.arpa -U 
> administrator
> 
> (while samba-ad-dc was running)

That is how you are supposed to do it.

> 
> on my domain controller.  Everything seems to work; I can bind W10 
> machines to this domain, use RSAT, etc., but reverse DNS searches
> aren't 
> working:

I refer you to my last reply, well sort of :-D

You have to tell your Windows clients to update their dns records, they
do not do it as standard.

Rowland





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