[Samba] FW: Problems after DC upgrade

[Rowland Penny]

On Mon, 10 Feb 2025 15:30:20 +0000
Stephen Brandli via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Update:
> 
> I had resolv.conf pointing to my dns servers on different machines,
> which serve other domains including brandli.com and have entries for
> the name servers of the ADS domain (domain.brandli.com).  I change
> the pointer in resolv.conf to the local IP address, i.e. the samba
> internal dns.  Now it resolves fully qualified names but not short
> names.  I gather it does not look at the "search" records in
> resolv.conf, but I don't know.  I've set "dns resolver" in samba.conf.
> 
> resolv.conf (.8 is the local server)
> 
> nameserver 10.65.187.8
> options edns0 trust-ad
> search domain.brandli.com internal.brandli.com
> search domain.brandlilaw.com internal.brandlilaw.com
> search brandli.com brandlilaw.com
> 

By all means have additional servers on other machines, but they
shouldn't hold any records for your AD dns domain, you could point the
'dns forwarder' at those.

I suggest you reset /etc/resolv.conf on the DC to the format in my last
post.

Rowland