On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Andrew Bartlett <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-04-01 at 23:26 -0500, Hef wrote: > > I thought that samba was supposed to be able to use nsupdate to > > perform dynamic dns updates. Is this not accurate? > > Please keep comments on the list. > Apologies, I misused the reply button. > > These updates still have to be against a Samba DNS server. > > Even if Samba is configured to somehow update a different server, the > windows clients and other DCs also need to do the same. And if they > did, you couldn't add a windows DC with it's DNS server to the mix, > because the data wouldn't be in the directory where it is expected to > be. > My thought was to have the DNS registrations against samba4 and then have samba4 re-register against a dns server via nsupdate. I hadn't considered interacting with other windows based PDC's in the domain. Would that imply that for an upsteam DNS server, I should have an NS record pointing to the samba4 server as a subdomain? and instead of having a AD domain example.com, I should have ad.example.com? > > 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
