[Samba] DCs in multiple VLANs

Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org
Fri Jan 20 09:39:16 UTC 2023



On 20/01/2023 08:50, Michael Tokarev via samba wrote:
> 18.01.2023 18:45, Stefan G. Weichinger via samba wrote:
> ..
>> to only run the DC in the LAN network.
>>
>> Otherwise there were 4 or 5 DNS-entries created for the hostname of 
>> the DC, which seemed problematic to me. Maybe it is not?
>>
>> What if a client in LAN gets a DNS reply with a IP in the VLANs? 
>> timeouts?
> 
> Is it impossible for the client to reach this IP on the VLAN?
> Quite often in this configuration it is possible, depending on
> routing and filtering in place.
> 
> FWIW, this is one of the reasons I prefer to manage DNS elsewhere, without
> tying it to samba/DC, - this way I can control which records are being 
> used.
> DNS is mostly static, it changes only when you reconfigure network, when 
> you
> can update DNS explicitly too, so dynamic DNS isn't really necessary.

Michael, how you run your systems is your prerogative, but please do not 
suggest using unsupported methods on this list, whilst they may work for 
you, they may not work for others.

Rowland




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