Bind slave to Windows 2008 AD/DNS

Jukka Pakkanen jukka.pakkanen at qnet.fi
Tue Dec 8 14:55:20 UTC 2009


Chris Buxton kirjoitti:
> On Dec 7, 2009, at 2:47 PM, Jukka Pakkanen wrote:
>   
>> I have out Bind servers running as slaves to Windows 2008 DNS server, and it's working fine as far as I can see (except that the slaves after a period of times lose the data and never update it unless restart the Bind process, but that's another matter) but browsing the web I noticed there should be 6 zones I need to slave to have it correctly:
>>
>>     
>>> What zones are you slaving on your BIND server? There should be six:
>>>
>>> DomainDNSZones.example.com
>>> ForestDNSZones.example.com
>>> _msdcs.example.com
>>> _sites.example.com
>>> _tcp.example.com
>>> _udp.example.com
>>>
>>> If you have these six zones slaved on your BIND server, and these zones are being transferred successfully, then there should be no problems. "
>>>       
>> What exactly does this mean?  I only have this:
>>
>> zone "company.local" {
>>   type slave;
>>   file "company.local.cache";
>>   masters { 62.x.x.x; };
>> };
>>
>> Should I instead have these six zones in the named.conf
>>     
>
> That depends on whether they're declared as delegated subzones or included in the company.local zone. By default, the AD wizard will create just company.local and _msdcs.company.local as zones - the other subdomains are not separated into their own individual zones.
>   
Thanks. Those 6 zones are subdomains to company.local so I guess they 
are covered.  What about the _msdcs.company.local, is that needed in slaves?






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