On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 17:36 +0000, Bryan Burgin wrote: > Hi Tridge, > > Happy new year. I'm checking to see if you had any additional feedback on > this or if you received the information you needed.
Bryan, I think you are misunderstanding the context here. We have found these records in Active Directory, in the DNS application naming contexts: Andrew Tridgell wrote: > There are a few aspects of the Windows DNS NCs that are puzzling us: > > 1) we see records like this: > > dn: > DC=..SerialNo-W2K8R2B.v2.tridgell.net,DC=v2.tridgell.net,CN=MicrosoftDNS,DC=DomainDnsZones,DC=v2,DC=tridgell,DC=net > dnsRecord: NDR: struct dnsp_DnssrvRpcRecord > wDataLength : 0x0008 (8) > wType : DNS_TYPE_ZERO (0) > dwFlags : 0x00000005 (5) > dwSerial : 0x000002b1 (689) > dwTtlSeconds : 0x00000000 (0) > dwTimeStamp : 0x00000000 (0) > dwReserved : 0x00000000 (0) > data : union dnsRecordData(case 0) > data : DATA_BLOB length=8 > [0000] 40 47 30 F4 9F A0 CB 01 @G0..... > > what are they for? What is in that 8 bytes of data? What is the significance > of the "..SerialNo-HOSTNAME" records? > > The MS-DNSP doc says: > > DNS_TYPE_ZERO An empty record type (section 3.6 in [RFC1034] and > section 3.2.2 in [RFC1035]). > 0x0000 > > which isn't very useful! > > 2) what is the dwReserved field in all the dnsNode records? The MS-DNSP doc > says: > > dwReserved: This value MUST be set to 0x00000000 when sent by the client > and ignored on > receipt by the server. > > but that makes no sense. These are fields that are sent by the LDAP or > DRS server in response to queries. The values are far too consistent > to be random. > > Note that we are not asking about the DNS RPC protocol that MS-DNSP > concentrates on. In our case Samba is a DC that is replicating the DNS > NCs with Microsoft DCs. We need to know how to fill in these fields > when we create records that will be replicated to MS DNS servers via > DRS. > > Cheers, Tridge -- Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org Samba Developer, Cisco Inc. _______________________________________________ cifs-protocol mailing list [email protected] https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/cifs-protocol
