[Samba] Samba DC and DNS

Vladimir Mokrozub mva at mfc.tambov.gov.ru
Mon Apr 7 11:12:04 UTC 2025


Hello, I'm new to Samba DC and I have a question regarding DNS:

we have DNS and DHCP servers, DNS dynamic updates are controlled by DHCP 
when clients request IP addresses. There're a lot of zones in DNS and we 
need to create a domain in one of these zones.
If I understand correctly Samba can't use external DNS, you must have 
DNS on the same server as Samba, either internal or bind.

The question is: if we move the zone to the Samba server, can we keep 
our DHCP-DNS update configuration? We'd like DHCP to be the only one 
updating DNS records of all computers including domain members.

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Regards, Vladimir Mokrozub




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