[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#1107139: samba-libs: DLZ module for bind9 version 9.20.x is missing, which breaks --dns-backend=BIND9_DLZ in trixie

[Steven Monai]

On 2025-06-02 11:31 p.m., Michael Tokarev wrote:
> 02.06.2025 07:28, Steven Monai wrote:
>>
>> Testing Samba AD provisioning in a freshly installed Debian trixie 
>> machine, I discovered that samba-libs does not provide a DLZ module 
>> for the trixie version of bind9.
> 
> Can you please check if adding
> 
>    database "dlopen /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/samba/bind9/dlz_bind9_18.so"
> 
> works?

Yes, using the version 18 module does appear to work for me. At least, 
in a limited, test environment (not at production-levels of loading yet, 
but I will try to stress my tester more in coming days).

>  From what I observe, current version, 20, should be the same as 18 one
> wrt the DLZ modules.

My testing would seem to confirm this. Or, at least, does not contradict.

> BTW, a few versions of this module, as shipped by samba, are built with
> exactly the same options (except of the name), which is a bit funny, -
> it should be the same file.  Earlier versions had differences, but since
> version 14 or so, all files are identical.

I'm glad you were able to look into it so quickly. Thank you for your 
ongoing efforts!

> Also, the dlz modules should be moved to samba-ad-dc package. But this
> is a different issue.

Cheers,
-S.M.