DNS automation between NAMED and windows 2000 DNS server

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Fri Jul 19 00:46:41 UTC 2002


At 07:10 PM 7/18/02, mo00 wrote:

>We are currently running a primary DNS server using named on a
>slakware distribution
>I know its possible to add an entry to the primary and it
>automatically propagates over
>too the secondary with two versions of NAMED.
>
>My question is can this be done using NAMED and windows2000 DNS
>server.
>
>
>When setting up 2000 DNS zones it prompts for a secondary / slave DNS
>server.
>Does this mean I can create the secondary on the 2000 server and allow
>updates from ns1.domain.com(linux)
>
>and then do vice versa with NAMED and add allow transers to
>ns2.domain.com(win2k)
>
>Any help appreciated or any solutions

Microsoft claims it's W2K DNS is a fully compliant name server so there is
no reason why it wouldn't work, but you should ask Microsoft.  Be careful
or it will try and own the zones. Did you check the documentation?

Danny



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