"Dale Shulmistra": BIND DNS in a windows environment

[Nate Campi]

On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 12:06:18PM -0800, Paul Vixie wrote:
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> From: "Dale Shulmistra" <dshulmistra at hotmail.com>
> To: info at isc.org
> Subject: BIND DNS in a windows environment
> Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 14:57:52 -0500
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> I cannot find any information regarding a BIND DNS Server and Windows 
> clients.
> 
> I am trying to setup a linux box (also gateway to internet), and have the 
> linux box act as my DNS Server.  I've setup my forward & reverse zones, the 
> name server, the hosts (windows clients).
> 
> I cannot connect my windows clients to the domain (Windows 2000 => Network 
> Identificaton => Properties => and then enter the domain name I setup on the 
> BIND DNS Server).  I get "The Specified domain does exist or cannot be 
> contacted".
> 
> Hopefully you can shed some light into the situation as I have read many of 
> the howto's but cannot find any answers regarding this.

Dale, you're trying to add the windows client to a NT domain when you
use that windows dialog box. If all you're after is DNS resolver
configuration, you don't even need to do this. Configure DNS in the
advanced box of the TCP/IP properties and be done with it.
-- 
Nate

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