Active Directory Munging the SOA

[Max Clark]

Hi all,

I am currently running BIND 9.2.3-13 on RedHat Linux. We are integrating 
Windows Active Directory in our environment and need to keep BIND as the 
authoritative source for the zone. Dynamic updates are configured and do 
work correctly (what a mess AD creates), however, periodicly the 
nameserver stops resolving names in the zone.

The error in the name resolution of the zone has been traced twice to 
two different errors in the SOA, the first time the semi-colon 
terminating the SOA record was missing, the second time the "." 
following the domain name at the beginning of the SOA record was missing.

I cannot find anything in the configuration of either the BIND server or 
the Active Directory server to suggest what is causing this. Is this a 
known issue? How do I fix this problem (if I can't we will have to run 
Windows DNS)?

Thanks in advance,
Max


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