Using BIND for Windows 2000 Active Directory!

[Danny Mayer]

At 01:46 PM 9/2/02, Michael Buchardt wrote:
>Hi
>I have decided to give BIND 9.21 a try on my Windows 2000 Active Directory
>but I can=B4t get it to work.
>I have download the 9.21 for Windows and unzipped the files in a directory.
>I then ran BINDinstall.exe to install the BIND service and copy the files=
 to
>the correct directories. I then ran the rndc-confgen -a to create a key in
>the /etc dir.
>
>I have then made a named.conf as follows:
>
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>Options {
>directory "/etc/"; //Working directory
>};
>//Zone entry for the local host associated with 127.0.0.1
>Zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" IN {
>type master ;
>file "db.127.0.0";
>} ;
>//Primary Zone entry for Active Directory domain testdomain.local
>Zone "testdomain.local" IN {
>type master;
>file "db.testdomain.local";
>allow-transfer { 192.168.1/24 ; } ;
>notify yes ;
>allow-update { 192.168.1/24 ; };
>} ;
>//Primary Zone entry for Active Directory domain testdomain.local
>Zone "_msdcs.testdomain.local" IN {
>type master;
>file "db._msdcs.testdomain.local";
>allow-transfer { 192.168.1/24 ; } ;
>notify yes ;
>allow-update { 192.168.1/24 ; };
>} ;
>
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>But when I try to start the ICS-BIND service it failes with a fatal error.
>Is there something in my named.conf file?

What does the application event log say? You can also test your
named.conf file by using named-checkconf.  The html help for it
is included in the binary kit. Are the zone files in the /etc/ directory?

>Kind Regards
>
>Michael Buchardt

Danny