Making windows 2003 DNS work with old BIND 8 DNS
Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
J.deBoynePollard at Tesco.NET
Wed Nov 3 15:39:15 UTC 2004
BF> To summarize what I have posted in the past:
BF>
BF> 1) Use a MS W2k/W2k+3 DNS Server for the "_" zones; use AD-integrated
BF> zones on ONLY ONE Domain Controller.
BF>
BF> 2) Have those four (six for 2003) zones slaved on your BIND servers.
Both of those are bad advice. There's no reason to explicitly restrict
the use of Active Directory integrated "zones" to just one domain
controller. Indeed, doing that prevents one from reaping one of the
primary benefits of Active Directory integration: multi-master
replication via Active Directory. Moreover, there's no reason that the
"'_' zones" have to be served from a Microsoft DNS server. One simply
needs a server that is capabable of serving up the various resource
record types (which some older server softwares are not). The Microsoft
documentation clearly describes the type of service that is required.
Finally, there's no reason for the BIND servers to have secondary copies
of the relevant "zones", and good reason (doing so would mix and match
different DNS database replication mechanisms, which is a bad idea) for
them *not* to do so.
<URL:http://microsoft.com./technet/itsolutions/migration/linux/mvc/cfgbind.mspx>
<URL:http://homepages.tesco.net./~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/dns-soa-field-semantics.html#Replication>
As always, don't expect good advice about Microsoft's DNS server in the
discussion forum for ISC's BIND. If you want to know about Microsoft's
DNS server and Active Directory, read the Microsoft product
documentation (It's actually the best documented DNS server of them
all.) and (then) ask in the Microsoft newsgroups (where, naturally
enough, there are people who know a lot more about Microsoft's server
than those in the ISC's BIND discussion forum do).
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