Apologies for answering my own post - found that python3-dnspython needed to
be installed. Once I had done that it works normally.
Sorry for the noise!
Roy
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roy Eastwood [mailto:spindles7 at gmail.com]
> Sent: 15 May 2019 15:44
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: ImportError: No module named 'dns'
>
> After updating my samba version to 4.10.3 (from a self-compiled 4.10.2
> version) on a DC running on Debian Stretch, I notice errors in the logs
when> samba_dnsupdate is run. Manually running it produces:
>
> root at debian-vb:~# samba_dnsupdate --verbose
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/local/samba/sbin/samba_dnsupdate", line 56, in
<module>
> import dns.resolver
> ImportError: No module named 'dns'
>
> This may have been present for some time, but only just noticed it. I
have> checked that python-dnspython is installed:
>
> root at debian-vb:~# dpkg -l | grep python-dnspython
> ii python-dnspython 1.15.0-1+deb9u1 all
DNS toolkit for> Python
>
> (The other DC in the domain (also updated to 4.10.3 running on rasbian
> stretch) works OK.)
>
> It was working before, obviously something has changed. How to fix?
Any> advice appreciated. Let me know if you need more info.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Roy
