bind, Microsoft Active Directory, Exchange and Magic Pixie Dust

[Eugene Grant]

We run it exclusively on Bind. AD updates the OpenBSD systems running our BIND 9.2.1.

Absolutely no issues.

GC information is there and readily accessible.

Eugene  



Brett Carr <brettcarr at ripe.net> on Monday, July 18, 2005 at 8:58 AM +0000 wrote:
>On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Barry Finkel wrote:
>
>> I am not sure what is meant by
>>
>>      "You must have a Microsoft DNS" in order for the Microsoft
>>      Exchange package to work correctly.
>>
>> And it appears that you do not know either.  A quick Google search
>> did not show any relevant pages.
>>
>> As I have posted previously, here is the setup I have:
>>
>>      ONE MS W2k+3 DNS for the four "_" zones and two W2k+3 zones
>>           for anl.gov
>>
>>      That MS DNS Server also has sets of four "_" zones for about 11
>>           subdomains of anl.gov.
>>
>>      All of the zones on the MS DNS Server are slaved on my four local
>>           BIND servers and two off-site BIND servers.
>>
>>      ALL clients (Windows, Mac, Unix, VMS, et alia) are configured to
>>           use my local BIND servers for DNS resolution; no client should
>>           ever query my MS DNS Server (but there is no harm if it does).
>>
>>      There are at least six MS Exchange Servers here, and none has DNS
>>      problems.
>
>
>Maybe there is some confusion between DNS and Global Catalog Servers.
>Exchange 2000/2003 must have (fast) access to a GC Server or they will not
>work. Exchange is very dependant on AD for some of its core
>functionality.
>As for DNS theres absoloutley no reason to not run a mixture of MS and
>BIND (in fact its properly a good way to go) However I wouldn't like to
>try and implement it all on BIND only.
>I think IF you could get it to work it would be more hassle than it's
>worth.
>
>--
>Brett Carr                              Ripe Network Coordination Centre
>System Engineer -- Operations Group     Singel 258 Amsterdam NL
>http://www.ripe.net
>
>



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