Reject of W2K gc._msdcs...
Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Tue Mar 7 02:38:59 UTC 2000
> On this issue, Is there any way to make an a record "Un-removable" in a
> dynamic zone. The reason I ask is were trying to set up DDNS on Solaris
> Running bind 8.2.2-p5, with a isc DHCP server also running on Solaris,
> and we need our Active directory servers, and our major unix servers to
> keep their entries in DNS even if some bozo professor tries to join the
> domain with a conflicting name. Here's our attempted setup:
>
> OurDomain.edu
> / \
> / \
> / \
> / \
> cs.OurDomain.edu ad.OurDomain.edu
>
> We have always had a cs sub-domain which we have developed tools to make
> hostnames unique across the primary domain and the sub-domain(ie if there
> is a machine cplusplus.cs.OurDomain.edu there is no machine
> cplusplus.OurDomain.edu.) With the Active Directory stuff we'd like to at
> least take some of our most important servers and propagate them to the
> ad.OurDomain.edu subdomain to "reserve" those names to avoid confusion.
> for instance {ns1,news,mail}.OurDomain.edu shouldn't be w2k laptops that
> float around the campus but should always point to our Unix Servers. With
> the way ddns is set up I don't see any way to make sure those names aren't
> stolen by some W2k box who asks the DHCP server for them. This may not be
> a bind issue and I should take it up with the DHCP server, but that's not
> my machine :P. (campus politics...)
>
>
>
> Robert Weber
> University of Colorado
> UnixOps
We are looking into this for BIND 9.
Mark
> > --------
> >
> > >
> > > > BTW, does anyone know when the Dynamic Update Bugs mentioned in the
> > > > INSTALL file of the BIND 8.2.2-p5 source will be fixed? (Specifically t
> he
> > > > ability to update to slaves, which would then propagate to masters, and
> > > > the destroying delegation to child domains bug.)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > -Tim
> > >
> > > It's scheduled to be fixed in BIND 9.0.0.
> > >
> > > Mark
> > > --
> > > Mark Andrews, Nominum Inc. / Internet Software Consortium
> > > 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
> > > PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
> > >
> > >
> >
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Mark Andrews, Nominum Inc. / Internet Software Consortium
1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
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