bind, Microsoft Active Directory, Exchange and Magic Pixie Dust

[Kurt Boyack]

On 7/14/05, Martin McCormick <martin at dc.cis.okstate.edu> wrote:
>         One of the latest things I am hearing is that "You must have a
> Microsoft DNS" in order for the Microsoft Exchange package to work
> correctly.

This is not true.  I've heard the same thing about AD and am currently
hearing that the Microsoft Certificate Authority requires Microsoft
DNS (I don't believe this either, but I haven't researched it yet).=20
We run all of our DNS on BIND at my location, and let the AD domain
controllers update the AD zones on BIND. We also have Exchange and
have never had a DNS related problem with it. We have had problems
with Sendmail and Exchange, due to "undocumented features" in Exchange
(i.e. Microsoft trying to stomp out sendmail), but those problems were
actually solved by adding MX records to BIND.