On Mon, 2013-04-01 at 23:46 -0500, Hef wrote: > 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.
Thanks, > > > > 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. We don't have any way to do that. > 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? Yes (or a forward zone, if you don't want to put the proper NS glue in there, and every DNS query already goes via that server). 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
