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johnymachine
Asked: 2017-02-08 15:03:36 +0800 CST

Can Linux machines joined to active directory update its DNS records?

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Well question is above, but to explain my setup:

  • Mikrotik as gateway running DHCP (DNS set to AD)
  • Windows 2012 as Active Directory and DNS
  • CentOs7 as client

I let CentOs pickup IP from DHCP on mikrotik and then join the machine to AD using this tutorial: https://www.rootusers.com/how-to-join-centos-linux-to-an-active-directory-domain/

But my DNS records are not updating automatically as with windows clients. Using verbose argument while domain joining, I received: Unable to perform DNS Update. DNS update failed: NT_STATUS_INVALID_PARAMETER.

I looked around the internet and I could not find clear explanation anywhere. Is it possible to achieve this behavior with current setup?

active-directory centos7 windows-dns

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You just need to put hostname and FQDN to /etc/hosts file. After that it worked like a charm.

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