Hi, We have a Samba AD domain with an Ubuntu 16 box as the AD DC . We then promoted a Windows 2008R2 box as a DC. The DNS zone/data in the Samba AD gets replicated to the Windows DC. However, when we try to add a host entry in Windows DNS, we get the message The host record abcd.LIN.GROUP cannot be created. Refused. When we try to create the same in the Samba AD box, it works. The DNS backend is BIND9_DLZ. We followed the following to setup/diagnose the BIND9_DLZ. We've added the entries in named.conf.options/apparmor.d https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/BIND9_DLZ_DNS_Back_End klist -kte dns.keytab Keytab name: FILE:dns.keytab KVNO Timestamp Principal ---- ----------------- -------------------------------------------------------- 1 18/02/19 14:05:10 DNS/SERVER5.LIN.group at LIN.GROUP (des-cbc-crc) 1 18/02/19 14:05:10 dns-SERVER5 at LIN.GROUP (des-cbc-crc) 1 18/02/19 14:05:10 DNS/SERVER5.LIN.group at LIN.GROUP (des-cbc-md5) 1 18/02/19 14:05:10 dns-SERVER5 at LIN.GROUP (des-cbc-md5) 1 18/02/19 14:05:10 DNS/SERVER5.LIN.group at LIN.GROUP (arcfour-hmac) 1 18/02/19 14:05:10 dns-SERVER5 at LIN.GROUP (arcfour-hmac) 1 18/02/19 14:05:10 DNS/SERVER5.LIN.group at LIN.GROUP (aes128-cts-hmac-sha1-96) 1 18/02/19 14:05:10 dns-SERVER5 at LIN.GROUP (aes128-cts-hmac-sha1-96) 1 18/02/19 14:05:10 DNS/SERVER5.LIN.group at LIN.GROUP (aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96) 1 18/02/19 14:05:10 dns-SERVER5 at LIN.GROUP (aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96) ldbsearch -H sam.ldb 'cn=dns-SERVER5' dn dn: CN=dns-SERVER5,CN=Users,DC=LIN,DC=group [global] workgroup = LIN realm = LIN.GROUP netbios name = SERVER5 server role = active directory domain controller idmap_ldb:use rfc2307 = yes log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m log level = 4 winbind nss info = rfc2307 allow dns updates = nonsecure and secure dns forwarder = 8.8.8.8 Regards, Praveen Ghimire