[Samba] Internal DNS not coming up in 4.18.0

[Rowland Penny]

On 23/03/2023 10:21, Anantha Raghava via samba wrote:
> Hello Rowland,
> 
> Find the answers to your questions & suggestions.

Not all, where did the domain come from ?
Was it provisioned as a Samba AD domain ?
Or
Did it it start out as an early Windows domain ?

> 
> 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.

This is leading me to think that you may have the older style of dns system.

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

You may be able to create an object in AD, whether AD will recognise it 
as an AD zone is another question, also you would need to add the SOA 
and NS records and I wouldn't have a clue what the required ldif would 
look like.

Rowland