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

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.

Rowland

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