[Samba] samba-tool dns serverinfo command throws error

James Atwell
Fri, 17 May 2019 16:19:21 -0000

Hello,

      I'm using the internal DNS server and when running the command
'samba-tool dns serverinfo dc1 -U administrator' I get the following
output.

@dc1:~# samba-tool dns serverinfo dc1.domain.local -U administrator
Password for [DOMAIN\administrator]:
   dwVersion                   : 0xece0205
   fBootMethod                 : DNS_BOOT_METHOD_DIRECTORY
   fAdminConfigured            : FALSE
   fAllowUpdate                : TRUE
   fDsAvailable                : TRUE
   pszServerName               : DC1.domain.local
   pszDsContainer              :
CN=MicrosoftDNS,DC=DomainDnsZones,DC=domain,DC=local
ERROR(<class 'TypeError'>): uncaught exception - a bytes-like
object is
required, not 'str'
   File
"/usr/local/samba/lib/python3.5/site-packages/samba/netcmd/__init__.py",
line 185, in _run
     return self.run(*args, **kwargs)
   File
"/usr/local/samba/lib/python3.5/site-packages/samba/netcmd/dns.py",
line
564, in run
     print_serverinfo(self.outf, typeid, res)
   File
"/usr/local/samba/lib/python3.5/site-packages/samba/netcmd/dns.py",
line
225, in print_serverinfo
     dns_addr_array_string(serverinfo.aipServerAddrs))
   File
"/usr/local/samba/lib/python3.5/site-packages/samba/netcmd/dns.py",
line
157, in dns_addr_array_string
     addr = inet_ntop(AF_INET, x)

I'm not experiencing any DNS issues so I believe this may be a bug with
the move to python3 Am I correct?

Ubuntu 16.04, samba 4.10.3.

Thanks.

-James