W2K Active Directory and BIND on Sun
Cricket Liu
cricket at acmebw.com
Thu Jun 22 21:42:12 UTC 2000
> I am trying to set up BIND (8.2.2p5) on Solaris to support Active
> Directory on a Windows 2000 server.
>
> I originally had this in named.conf
>
> zone "panorama.com" {
> type master;
> file "panorama.zone";
> allow-update {
> panorama;
> };
> };
>
> This overwrote the (neatly formatted) panorama.zone file that I had.
> Is this the expected behaviour ?
> (I suppose it was logical as it has to store the updates somewhere.)
Yes.
> Looking in the BIND FAQ it suggests using :
>
> zone "_msdcs.panorama.com" {
> type master;
> file "_msdcs.panorama.zone";
> check-names ignore;
> allow-update {
> panorama;
> };
> };
>
> Based on what was dumped into the 'panorama.zone' I also created entries
> for _sites.panorama.com, _tcp.panorama.com and _udp.panorama.com.
> Are these necessary ?
If you want to leave panorama.com static, yes.
> Is there a document that says, in simple terms, how to set up BIND to
> work with Active Directory ?
Nothing comprehensive yet that I know of.
cricket
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