Testing Dynamic DNS Updates

To test the dynamic DNS updates, run as user root on your Samba domain controller (DC):

# samba_dnsupdate --verbose --all-names

This commands forces an update of all records specified in the /usr/local/samba/private/dns_update_list file.

The samba_dnsupdate utility updates the DNS. It automatically checks for missing DNS records specified in the dns_update_list file when the samba daemon starts and after every 10 minutes.

If the dynamic DNS updates fail, see:

• BIND9_DLZ back end: BIND9_DLZ Troubleshooting
• INTERNAL_DNS back end: Samba Internal DNS Troubleshooting