Dnsmasq Active Directory Srv Records

Apr 12, 2013 Godaddy DNS and Active Directory. (SRV) resource record used to locate an Active Directory. The services tab and go down to DNSMasq then type. Integrating Samba’s DNS server with existing dnsmasq installations. As an Active Directory encompasses not only LDAP and Kerberos. Special SRV records to.

DNS can always bite you in the rear. In some case you run your own DNS server and you can correct the issues. In other cases, you're beholden to the powers that be to determine your fate.

All is not lost, however, it is possible to run your own DNS proxy to override specific answers. It's not an ideal solution, and can certainly be accused of being a 'hack' but it can be invaluable in some situations. Read on for how to do this There are a number of Active Directory scenarios or edge cases inwhich your Mac OS X computer doesn't have access to certain DNSrecords, and this hinders your Mac's ability to join or reliably useActive Directory. Some scenarios are more, er, legitimate than others,and some scenarios are pretty ridiculous. And yes, it is better to fixAD than it is to work around poorly-designed AD implementations,augmenting DNS might be relatively quick workaround to make your Macswork with AD.

Urban Style Soccer Demo here. Until the next AD issue crops up. Possible trouble scenarios: Possible scenarios in which the Mac OS X Active Directory connector won't reliably join or use AD include: • YourActive Directory site was designed with Branch Office Topology (seebelow), and certain DNS records are not purposely available to Mac OS X( _ldap._tcp., _kerberos._tcp.,_kpasswd._tcp. And _kpasswd._udp.) • There is a network device that performs Network Address Translation (NAT) between you and the Domain Controller • Active Directory Sites isn't set up correctly Some false solutions: • Youcan't just add your preferred domain controller to /etc/hosts, because/etc/hosts doesn't provide DNS service (SRV) records, which arerequired by the Active Directory connector. • You can'tjust select the checkbox in the Active Directory connector for 'Preferthis domain server', because that only prefers a Domain Controller thatis in the same Site you are a member of, but you first have to become amember of that Site. • You can't just enable DNS with ServerAdmin and create a zone for your AD domain and then create only the DNSrecords you need, because this doesn't provide the DNS records for allthe other hosts in the AD domain. Well, I guess you *could* try tohand-synchronize your Mac OS X Server-provided DNS service with theAD-provided DNS service, but this seems like a recipe for disaster. Some better solutions: • Fix your Active Directory infrastructure; • use the DNS service from AD; • don't use NAT.