[Samba] Error on PTR DNS?

[Rowland Penny]

On Sun, 14 Jul 2024 10:45:20 +0200
Josep Maria Gorro via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Dear all.
> 
> I'm creating a new domain using Debian12 and samba 4.20.2.
> I've created 2 DC and one FS.
> Checking DNS I can see PTR records for DC servers are wrong (on DNS
> is recorded 2 and 3 PTR records instead of 242 and 243 that are last
> IP numbers in IPv4 address DCs) and for FS does not exists.
> The first one seems to be a bug on DNS record generation. The second
> one seems to be that I need to create PTR record manually.
> 
> Can anyone confirm this?
> 
> I'm going to correct it manually.
> 
> Thanks.
> 

I feel this must be, to a certain extent, self inflicted.
When you first provision a Samba AD domain, there is no reverse zone,
you have to create it and then add the DCs PTR record to it.

When you join a Unix domain member, there is no code to add its PTR
record to AD.

Rowland