Zone transfers from Win2K AD-DNS to BIND

dlimanov at sct.com dlimanov at sct.com
Tue Dec 23 16:45:20 UTC 2003


Hello
Here's the situation: our company was purchased a while ago by another
company. They're on WinNT, we're on Win2000 AD. We kept our domain
name and our "old" naming convention and DNS suffix stayed the same
(oldcompany.com) because it's close to impossible to rename Win2000 AD
without some major PITA. Everything's good, but name resolution for
machines in our office only works for people that have the same DNS
suffix of oldcompany.com. No one from headquarters can hit anything on
our network by name, since their DNS suffix is newcompany.com.
So, we decided to setup one of their DNS servers as secondary to our
AD-integrated DNS server so it'd suck in our oldcompany.com zone and
people on their end would be able to resolve these machines by name.
I've setup Zone transfers, notifies and enabled BIND secondaries on
our DNS server. However, on the other end they're using BIND and their
DNS admin is telling me that in order for them to setup their BIND
server as secondary, in NAMED.CONF he needs full path to the file that
has all DNS info, like oldcompany.com.dns. The problem with that is
our DNS server is AD-integrated and such file doesn't exist - all DNS
records are stored in Registry and AD.
In theory, I could do an export right from DNS MMC snap-in to export
everything to a tab-delimited text file but I'm not sure that BIND
requires special file format for zone transfers. If anyone knows of
any other way to setup BIND as a secondary for W2K AD-integrated DNS
server and make zone transfers work, please let me know - I've search
everywhere but couldn't find an answer to this.
Thanks in advance,

Dimitri





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