Am Donnerstag, 28. März 2013, 23:42:50 schrieb Wayne Andersen: > Samba 4.0.0 > > I am running all of these commands from the PDC DC1. > > /etc/resolv.conf > domain mydomain.com > nameserver 127.0.0.1 > > smb.conf does have a > dns forwarder = 192.168.1.2 > > samba-001 the actual host name, and also a PDC, in the same domain. > I would like to have the alias my-server point to samba-001. > > I added a CNAME record: > bin/samba-tool dns add 127.0.0.1 mydomain.com my-server CNAME samba-001 > -Uadministrator > > I can query it. > > bin/samba-tool dns query 127.0.0.1 mydomain.com my-server CNAME > Password for [[email protected]]: > Name=, Records=1, Children=0 > CNAME: samba-001. (flags=f0, serial=6, ttl=900) > > Host finds it. > > host -t CNAME my-server.mydomain.com > my-server.mydomain.com is an alias for samba-001. > > I cannot ping it, it is not resolving properly. > > ping samba-001, resolves to the proper IP > ping samba-001.mydomain.com, resolves to the proper IP > ping my-server, ping: unknown host > , ping: unknown host
which unix/linux distro and version are you running? Try strace ping -c1 my-server.mydomain.com and look for errors. I did the same tests here on opensuse (samba git master) and don't see that failure. What do you get with: dig @localhost my-server.mydomain.com ? Cheers, Günter -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
