[Samba] Provisioning new AD Domain Controller

[Mark Foley]

On Thu Nov 30 13:38:35 2023 Rowland Penny via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 30 Nov 2023 13:05:08 -0500
> Mark Foley via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
> > The wiki
> > https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setting_up_Samba_as_an_Active_Directory_Domain_Controller#Create_a_reverse_zone
> > says, "For a DC with the FQDN of dc1.samdom.example.com and the
> > ipaddress of 10.99.0.1, to add a record to the 0.99.10.in-addr.arpa
> > ..."
> > 
> > Is this correct or should the rDNS PTR be 1.99.10.in-addr.arpa? 
> > 
> > I just want to make sure this isn't a typeo.
> > 
> > Thanks --Mark
> > 
>
> No it isn't a typo, but it is just an example which will give you 255
> clients.
>
> From the given example '10.99.0.1', you would take the first three
> octets '10.99.0' and reverse them '0.99.10', add '.in-addr.arpa' to get
> '0.99.10.in-addr.arpa' and this would be the name for the reversezone.
>
> If you require more clients, just take less octets e.g. '10.99' would
> give you '99.10.in-addr.arpa'
>
> Rowland

OK, thanks. I didn't know that. I just wrote another email to Dave questioning
this. I'll move forward with the 3-octet version.

Thanks --Mark