BIND9 + AD in Enterprise Environment

Barry Finkel b19141 at achilles.ctd.anl.gov
Tue Jul 9 13:24:47 UTC 2002


Kevin Darcy wrote:

>The only other glitch/gotcha I would mention is that if you make your
>BIND box a slave to an MS-DNS box, you might experience the "floating
>serial number" problem which can cause your zone transfers to temporarily
>stop. I haven't seen this in a while, however, so maybe they finally
>fixed the bug...

There is still a problem with MS W2k DNS - serial numbers decrease
after a reboot.  We are running a test dns.exe from MS, and there is
a DNS Engineer from Redmond trying to solve the problem by logging
in to our DNS Server and looking at our Active Directory.  I believe
that the MS code does not store the zone serial number with the zone,
due to the way AD works (and the multi-master scheme).
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