[Samba] Internal DNS not coming up in 4.18.0

[Anantha Raghava]

Hello Rowland,

Find the answers to your questions & suggestions.

Does 'samba-tool dns zonelist <YOUR_DC>' show anything ?

No - It results in "rpc server error - WERR_DNS_ERROR_DS_UNAVAILABLE"

samba-tool dns zonecreate' can create a dns zone, though I have never 
tried to create a forest zone.

I tried this. But results in same error - "rpc server error - 
WERR_DNS_ERROR_DS_UNAVAILABLE".

Backup -  After restore, same error is repeating. That means it is not a 
viable backup.

Can we use ldb add command here to insert the ForestZone into sam.ldb? 
It may just be a wild thought.

Thanks & Regards,

Anantha Raghava H A


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On 23/03/23 3:34 pm, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
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>
> On 23/03/2023 06:12, Anantha Raghava via samba wrote:
>> Hello Rowland,
>>
>> ldbsearch command is returning 0 records.
>>
>> # returned 0 records
>> # 0 entries
>> # 0 referrals
>
> The last time I saw something like this was when the domain had 
> started out as an early Windows domain (2k, 2003) and had migrated to 
> a Samba domain, could this be what has happened here ?
>
> Does 'samba-tool dns zonelist <YOUR_DC>' show anything ?
>
>>
>> On the backup front, I take the back up using samba-tool backup 
>> command and it was successful.
>
> I thought you said that you had no viable backup ?
>
>>
>> Can I create a new ForestZone using samba-tool? I asking this 
>> question as RSAT is not connecting to DNS server.
>
> 'samba-tool dns zonecreate' can create a dns zone, though I have never 
> tried to create a forest zone.
>
> Rowland
>
>