[Samba] DNS management error accessing the domain zone

Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org
Thu Mar 20 15:49:49 UTC 2025


On Thu, 20 Mar 2025 12:39:10 -0300
Nicolás Hermida <nhermida at init.ar> wrote:

> Thank you Rowland for your reply.
> 
> I have changed the nameserver to point to itself. At the moment the
> error persists.
> 
> I will be comparing the zones between domain controllers, and let you
> know if there is something missing here.

This has come up before and it is usually a difference in the dns
records.

> 
> Unfortunately the domain is using '.local' TLD. We know it is not RFC
> compliant but we have inherited like this. This could be a possible
> cause?

No, just thought I would mention it, I know that at one time, for a
short time, Microsoft recommended using '.local', but they soon
stopped. Your problem now is that you will probably not be able to use
Avahi on your Linux machines or connect any MacOS machines.

Rowland



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