[Samba] declaring Bind9 DNS servers as slaves when using Samba AD/DC with BIND9_DLZ

Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org
Wed May 4 10:39:54 UTC 2022


On Wed, 2022-05-04 at 12:26 +0200, L.P.H. van Belle via samba wrote:
> Small tip on this one. 
> Yes, below what Rowland suggest works fine, I use(d) it also. 
> Only you might have/see delays in updateing the slave zones.  
> 
> I didn’t like that, so I changed it to forward zoned. 
> 
> ////  Rotterdam SLAVE
> zone " ad.lasthome.solace.krynn " IN {
>         type forward;
>         forward first;
>         forwarders { IP_DC ; IP_OTHER_DC; };
> };
> zone "0.131.10.in-addr.arpa" {
>         type forward;
>         forward first;
>         forwarders { IP_DC ; IP_OTHER_DC; };
> };
> 
> Done, no delays on resolvings due not synced slaves. 

The OP asked about a Samba dns slave server, to be used if a DC was not
contactable, a forwarding dns server would suffer from the same
problem.

Rowland





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