Am Donnerstag, 28. M?rz 2013, 23:42:50 schrieb Wayne
Andersen:> Samba 4.0.0
>
> I am running all of these commands from the PDC DC1.
>
> /etc/resolv.conf
> domain mydomain.com
> nameserver 127.0.0.1
>
> smb.conf does have a
> dns forwarder = 192.168.1.2
>
> samba-001 the actual host name, and also a PDC, in the same domain.
> I would like to have the alias my-server point to samba-001.
>
> I added a CNAME record:
> bin/samba-tool dns add 127.0.0.1 mydomain.com my-server CNAME samba-001
> -Uadministrator
>
> I can query it.
>
> bin/samba-tool dns query 127.0.0.1 mydomain.com my-server CNAME
> Password for [administrator at MYDOMAIN.COM]:
> Name=, Records=1, Children=0
> CNAME: samba-001. (flags=f0, serial=6, ttl=900)
>
> Host finds it.
>
> host -t CNAME my-server.mydomain.com
> my-server.mydomain.com is an alias for samba-001.
>
> I cannot ping it, it is not resolving properly.
>
> ping samba-001, resolves to the proper IP
> ping samba-001.mydomain.com, resolves to the proper IP
> ping my-server, ping: unknown host
> , ping: unknown host
which unix/linux distro and version are you running?
Try
strace ping -c1 my-server.mydomain.com
and look for errors.
I did the same tests here on opensuse (samba git master) and
don't see that failure.
What do you get with:
dig @localhost my-server.mydomain.com ?
Cheers, G?nter