Bind domain; win2k sub-domain

[Kevin Darcy]

David Frank wrote:

>  One of our departments wants their own sub domain to manage. The problem is
> that they want to use a Win2k DNS Server for their DNS; we currently use
> bind exclusively. Another issue is that they also have Solaris boxes that
> they want in that same sub-domain.
>
> My question is this; If they run their win2k box as a master of their
> sub-domain and I configure my DNS server (Which is the secondary for our
> domain) as a slave for their sub-domain, will the Solaris boxes be able to
> look to my Unix name server for resolution when Win2k DNS fails?

Are the Solaris boxes running their own caching nameservers? If so, then as
long as both your Unix nameserver and the Win2K nameserver are listed in the
NS records for the zone, failover and load-balancing will occur between those
nameservers automatically.

Or, are the Solaris boxes configured as slave resolvers? In that case, you can
configure them to point to the Win2K box and fail over to the Unix nameserver,
or _vice_versa_, or to totally unrelated nameservers. It's up to you.


- Kevin