samba - Oct 2024 - Best way to get the current PDC emulator master via DNS (Possible bug?)

I second the request for creating a bug for this. I was working on 
testing Windows Server 2022 but I seem to have gotten sidetracked with 
some other issues. Once I get get Windows Server working I will reply 
back with how Windows does it.

Darin


   >  On 22/10/24 08:28, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:

   >   On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 18:58:55 +0000
   >    Darin via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
   >
   >            Transferring the PDC_Emulator FSMO role does not create 
the dns
   >            entry,

   >        it is created by samba_dnsupdate, which is run every 10 
minutes.

   >        Is there a reason it doesn't clean up the old one? It seems 
odd to
   >        have multiple DNS entries.
   >
   >
   >    OK, the reason is, it wasn't added when the initial python code 
was
   >    written and I never thought about it when I upgraded the code to
   >    transfer/seize all 7 FSMO roles. Subsequently, I was told my 
python
   >    code isn't really good enough for Samba, so I have no compulsion 
to fix
   >    it.

>  Could you add a bugzilla bug for this? Not your python I mean, or 
> people's opinions thereof, but the samba_dnsupdate issue.
>  Douglas

So I tested Windows to see how Windows does it. I set my Windows Server 
as the PDC Emulator and after some time the record at 
_ldap._tcp.pdc._msdcs. was set to the server only. When I transferred 
the PDC roll back to Samba the record for the Windows server remained 
but Samba added a record pointing to Samba. It seems that the only real 
issue with Samba is that it isn't cleaning up the old record.

I hope this is useful to someone.

On 10/24/2024 15:12, contactdarin at posteo.net wrote:
> I second the request for creating a bug for this. I was working on
> testing Windows Server 2022 but I seem to have gotten sidetracked with
> some other issues. Once I get get Windows Server working I will reply
> back with how Windows does it.
> 
> Darin
> 
> 
>   >  On 22/10/24 08:28, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> 
>   >   On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 18:58:55 +0000
>   >    Darin via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>   >
>   >            Transferring the PDC_Emulator FSMO role does not create 
> the dns
>   >            entry,
> 
>   >        it is created by samba_dnsupdate, which is run every 10 
> minutes.
> 
>   >        Is there a reason it doesn't clean up the old one? It
seems
> odd to
>   >        have multiple DNS entries.
>   >
>   >
>   >    OK, the reason is, it wasn't added when the initial python
code
> was
>   >    written and I never thought about it when I upgraded the code to
>   >    transfer/seize all 7 FSMO roles. Subsequently, I was told my 
> python
>   >    code isn't really good enough for Samba, so I have no
compulsion
> to fix
>   >    it.
> 
> 
>>  Could you add a bugzilla bug for this? Not your python I mean, or 
>> people's opinions thereof, but the samba_dnsupdate issue.
> 
>>  Douglas