samba - Jan 2010 - AD DNS scavenging and winbind:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.4 (Tikanga)
Samba 3.0.33-3.15.el5_4.1

I have run into an issue where the DNS records added by a net ads join seem to
be being scavenged.  From what I understand, Windows servers/workstations check
in (update their host record) on the AD DNS server on a regular basis.  So the
question is, how can I have samba/winbind do the same?

I could just setup a cron job that executes: net ads dns register -P

But that's kind of ugly.

I know I can't be the first person to see this behavior.   Is there a more
elegant solution?

Thanks

----- Original Message ----

From: Matthew J. Salerno <vagabond_king at yahoo.com>
To: samba at lists.samba.org
Sent: Wed, January 13, 2010 2:08:57 PM
Subject: [Samba] AD DNS scavenging and winbind:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.4 (Tikanga)
Samba 3.0.33-3.15.el5_4.1

I have run into an issue where the DNS records added by a net ads join seem to
be being scavenged.  From what I understand, Windows servers/workstations check
in (update their host record) on the AD DNS server on a regular basis.  So the
question is, how can I have samba/winbind do the same?

I could just setup a cron job that executes: net ads dns register -P

But that's kind of ugly.

I know I can't be the first person to see this behavior.   Is there a more
elegant solution?

Thanks

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Is there any native way to mimic the below functionality of a windows
server/workstation?  Or am I stuck with a cron job?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816592

By default, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 reregister their A and
PTR resource records every 24 hours regardless of the computer's role.