[Samba] Solved Re: Samba Internal DNS not forwarding some zones

[Ralf Spenneberg]

Hi,

the problem was resolved. The smbd daemon required a restart to 
completely forget the zone.

Kind regards,
Ralf


Am 13.12.23 um 12:37 schrieb Ralf Spenneberg via samba:
> Hi Rowland,
> 
> thanks for the response. I guess, I did not clarify enough.
> Of Course I do have a the AD zone setup and managed by the DCs. I am 
> talking about additional external zones not governed by the AD.
> 
> So I do have
> ad.domain.toplevel
> setup and managed by samba
> 
> I was talking about an additional actually external zone, that I did 
> setup first as an additional manual zone in the internal dns using the 
> Windows mmc, but later removed because I wanted to make use of an 
> upstream forwarder. Forwarding for all external zones is configured in 
> smb.conf.
> Am 13.12.23 um 11:17 schrieb Rowland Penny via samba:
>> I take it by 'forwarder DNS', you mean an external (to the AD dns
>> domain) DNS server, if so, I suggest you stop doing this.
> Yes. And I think this is a usual setup for resolving zones on the 
> internet. I assume a misunderstanding of my message on your side.
> 
>> You shouldn't search anything in the 'sam.ldb.d' directory, only
>> search in '/var/lib/samba/private/sam.ldb'
> As I mentioned, this was just for debugging purposes. I know that direct 
> write access to these files breaks the replication, etc.
>>
>>>
>>> But still. Anything for xyz.net is forwarded but myzone.net is not
>>> forwarded to the forwarder. Samba apparently still thinks it is
>>> responsible for the zone.
>>
>> It is.
> It should not be responsible, because it is not the AD zone, as 
> mentioned abouve but an additional external zone.
>>
> 
> Do you have any additional hints?
> 
> Kind regards,
> RAlf
> 
> 

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