W2k MASTER and Solaris BIND slave

[Rajesh Bandar]

Thanks for your reply. I'll be configuring solaris server (BIND) as a
slave server for domain controller master.
On 10/25/05, Kevin Darcy <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote:
> Rajesh Bandar wrote:
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> >Hi all,
> >Can I run BIND9 DNS as slave for Active Directory domain controllers
> >master. Can Win2k server transfer zones to BIND9 DNS server which is
> >running on a Solaris box? I maintain unix servers and we have been
> >having DNS issues with windows domain controllers. Since I dont have
> >any control on windows domain controllers I want to run BIND on one of
> >the solaris boxes and planning to ask the parent server admin to
> >delegate the Unix server as one of the authoritative server. Domain
> >controller is the master server and Sun box will be the slave server.
> >My only worry is will Windows domain controller transfer zones to BIND
> >DNS running on a solaris box.
> >
> The short answer is: yes.
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> We run both styles of AD-co-operation here, i.e. where the Domain
> Controllers write directly into a BIND-controlled zone via Dynamic
> Update, and where the zone is hosted in AD and the BIND servers are just
> slaves to the Domain Controllers. Those BIND servers are Solaris, by the
> way...
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