On Wed, 2013-01-09 at 09:47 -0500, [email protected] wrote: > > I am not able to get the Samba4 internal DNS server to respond to DNS > > requests on the network. > > > > I am running Samba4 4.1.0pre1-GIT-c1fb37d on my CentOS 6.3 system. I > > followed the instructions here: > > https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_AD_DC_HOWTO > > > > I configured Samba4 to use the internal DNS server. My Samba4 server is > > 192.168.0.13. Its full hostname is ubuntu-ad.allenlan.net. The realm is > > ALLENLAN.NET. > > > > The DNS testing section of the document passes: > > > > $host -t SRV _ldap._tcp.allenlan.net. > > _ldap._tcp.allenlan.net has SRV record 0 100 389 > > ubuntu-ad.allenlan.net. > > $host -t SRV _kerberos._udp.allenlan.net. > > _kerberos._udp.allenlan.net has SRV record 0 100 88 > > ubuntu-ad.allenlan.net. > > $host -t A ubuntu-ad.allenlan.net. > > ubuntu-ad.allenlan.net has address 192.168.0.13 > > > > I configured my Windows XP system with a DNS of 192.168.0.13 (Samba4 > > server). > > When I perform the Windows command "nslookup ubuntu-ad.allenlan.net" (or > > any variation of that) it reports: > > DNS request timed out. > > timeout was 2 seconds. > > *** Can't find server name for address 192.168.0.13: Timed out > > (above 3 messages repeat again) > > Default servers are not available > > Server: UnKnown > > Address: 192.168.0.13 > > > > The Windows system can ping the Samba4 server by IP address. > > > > Any help would be appreciated! More configuration information below. > > > > /etc/resolv.conf: > > domain allenlan.net > > nameserver 192.168.0.13 > > > > /usr/local/samba/etc/smb.conf: > > [global] > > workgroup = ALLENLAN > > realm = ALLENLAN.NET > > netbios name = UBUNTU-AD > > server role = active directory domain controller > > dns forwarder = 192.168.0.1 > > interfaces = 192.168.0.13 127.0.0.1 > > bind interfaces only = yes > > log level = 3 > > server services = smb, rpc, nbt, wrepl, ldap, cldap, kdc, drepl, > > winbind, ntp_signd, kcc, dnsupdate, dns > > > > /etc/hosts: > > 192.168.0.13 ubuntu-ad ubuntu-ad.allenlan.net > > 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 > > localhost4.localdomain4 > > ::1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 > > localhost6.localdomain6 > > > > $hostname > > ubuntu-ad.allenlan.net > > > > That was the reason I switched to bind9. The internal dns server used to > keep connections open, without closing old ones, until reaching the limit > of max files... > I don't know wether it's been already fixed or not. But it doesn't happen > with bind. > This topic is been in the list before.
Yes, we fixed that (with a timeout). Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
