W2K Active Directory and BIND on Sun

[Cricket Liu]

> I am trying to set up BIND (8.2.2p5) on Solaris to support Active
> Directory on a Windows 2000 server.
> 
> I originally had this in named.conf
> 
>     zone "panorama.com" {
>     type master;
>     file "panorama.zone";
>     allow-update {
>     panorama;
>     };
>     };
> 
> This overwrote the (neatly formatted) panorama.zone file that I had.
> Is this the expected behaviour ?
> (I suppose it was logical as it has to store the updates somewhere.)

Yes.

> Looking in the BIND FAQ it suggests using :
> 
>     zone "_msdcs.panorama.com" {
>     type master;
>     file "_msdcs.panorama.zone";
>     check-names ignore;
>     allow-update {
>     panorama;
>     };
>     };
> 
> Based on what was dumped into the 'panorama.zone' I also created entries
> for _sites.panorama.com, _tcp.panorama.com and _udp.panorama.com.
> Are these necessary ?

If you want to leave panorama.com static, yes.

> Is there a document that says, in simple terms, how to set up BIND to
> work with Active Directory ?

Nothing comprehensive yet that I know of.

cricket