Bind 8.3.3 and WinAD

[Barry Finkel]

Simpson, Doug <dsimpson at friedmancorp.com> wrote:
> I am setting up Active Directory fo rthe first time.  I have been able to
> get my dns (bind 8.3.3) to be dynamic, however, it appears that certain
> files are having their rights changed.  The "mydomain.net.hosts" file in
> .../cache/... Is changing from 644 to 444.

To add to what has already been posted -- Once a zone is dynamic,
ALL updates must be made either dynamically by clients or via 
nsupdate by the DNS administrator.  The zone file itself on disk must
NOT be updated manually.  The current contents of the dynamic zone
are kept in memory, and a journal (.jnl) file is kept for updates
that have not yet been written back to disk.  BIND will not 
automatically re-write the zone file to disk after each DDNS update.
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