BIND forward to Windows DNS

[Kevin Darcy]

Rutger Blom wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We have a BIND server which is authoritative for zone "company.com". After some
> years we implemented Microsoft AD with its own DNS server in its own
> zone "ad.company.com". The Microsoft server is authoritative for
> "ad.company.com"
>
> Now we want clients that have the BIND server as their configured DNS
> server to be able to resolve hosts in the "ad.company.com" zone. I
> thought this was done by configuring a forward zone "ad.company.com" on the BIND
> server, alternatively use the "forwarders" option. However, neither of these methods seem to work.
>
> Is there something I am missing here?
>
>   
Delegate ad.company.com from company.com. That's a prerequisite for the 
forwarding to work. But, you may find after delegating it, that you 
don't even need forwarding, in which case don't do it.

- Kevin