DNS w/Win2k

[Sam Sylar]

It would be better, if you need to deploy W2K, to run a pair of DC's in an
AD-integrated zone. Provided you have the green to spring for the extra DC,
that will take care of fail-over and replication, and you shouldn't ever
have to reconfigure a slave. Use the BIND box as a slave to monitor your AD
zones.
BIND has a hard time not only with the way records are updated by W2K, but
the number of updates (W2K DNS is verbose, to say the least). Also, if you
have w95/w98 clients on your network, you'll still need WINS. W2K DC's
forward WINS queries (forward and reverse) through DNS if the option is
enabled, which it is by default. Needless to say, that alone drove our BIND
box nuts. Since we have 6000 windows desktops, we punted and gave the
top-level zones to W2K. We moved our BIND boxes into a subdelegation set up
for our Unix gear, where they are masters for that zone.
Best regards,
Sam

> -----Original Message-----
> Kevin Darcy
>
> It's not that hard to reconfigure a slave as a master in the case of a
> master failure. This could probably be scripted fairly
> easily. You'd have
> to be careful, however, on recovery, to make sure the
> original master is
> completely sync'ed with the zone before it starts accepting
> updates again.
> Otherwise you could lose updates that were sent to the slave and
> subsequently overlaid by a zone transfer.
>
>
> - Kevin
>
> fievel58 at my-deja.com wrote:
>
> > I am running BIND 8.2.2p5 on Solaris 2.7. I plan to upgrade to p7 on
> > the BIND after the first of the year. In our Lab we are
> testing a WIN2k
> > solution with the DNS. I have found that the dynamic
> updates can only
> > be written to the master, which makes sense. I need to put together
> > some kind of fail-over plan. If the master goes down the slave will
> > answer queries but no further updates will occur. Am I missing
> > something or does that leave me with a one box solution?
> > Of course we have looked into subdomains but that will
> complicate other
> > issues on our network.
> > Any ideas or input would be helpful.
> > Thank you for sharing.
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