[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#714370: samba4: samba_dnsupdate choose wrong IPV6 address to connect to

[Michael Tokarev]

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On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 15:41:50 +0200 Manuel Sabban <sabban at enst.fr> wrote:
> Package: samba4
> Version: 4.0.3+dfsg1-0.1
> Severity: minor
> Tags: upstream
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> I tried to make the dnsupdate work with samba4. The configuration of
> our dns quite simple. We have a master dns that forward all requests
> concerning the samba4 domain to the samba4 server. Our samba4
> installation use samba_dlz and bind to achieve the dns update.
> 
> Our site is IPV6 enabled. But as we have an IPV4 class B, we choose to
> calculate the IPV6 from each computer basically from the IPV4 and our
> prefix. When debugging the dnsupdate I was surprised to see that samba
> was trying to connect to a server DNS on an IPV6 calculated from our
> prefix and the server MAC address (just as the norm says), but for all
> I am aware of, this address is not used not listed anywhere.

Hi!  Replying to an old bug report (almost 10 years old!)..

Is this still an issue today, with current version of samba?

Thanks,

/mjt