Is this possible

[Kevin Darcy]

Robb Edge wrote:

>In the final stages of Active Directory planning, but one thing that keeps
>nagging me is DNS.
>Currently run Bind on VMS for all our DNS needs.
>Planning to run the DNS on a W2K3 server for the active directory
>requirements and to stop Bind from getting all the updates.
>Adding NS entries to bind for the 4 zones i need to delegate to the 2K3
>server.
>This also helps in that i dont have to go round re-configuring all my
>desktop's with new DNS servers.
>Now the niggling bit.
>When i finish i'll have 1 AD dns server, which is fine and dandy till it
>falls over at which point i'm stuffed.
>If i set up a 2nd 2K3 server with DNS and have it as a secondary zone, what
>do ineed to add to Bind so that clients will see it if i loose the master
>zone?
>
This isn't really a BIND question at all. Client (stub) resolver 
failover is dictated by the contents of the resolver configuration, 
either /etc/resolv.conf (on Unix boxes), whatever is plugged into the 
registry (for Wintel) and/or whatever the client configures dynamically 
via DHCP options.

If you have non-authoritative nameservers in your environment, however, 
you should make sure to include the appropriate NS records in the 
relevant zones, so that nameserver-to-nameserver (iterative resolution) 
failover and/or load-balancing will operate correctly.

                                                                         
                                                      - Kevin