WIndows DNS (master) -> BIND (slave)

[Donny Jekels]

Ok I got it to work, I removed $ORIGIN from my own db.zone file then
then transfer worked.

-----Original Message-----
From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On
Behalf Of Donny Jekels
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 8:35 AM
To: Dixon, Justin; bind-users at isc.org
Subject: RE: WIndows DNS (master) -> BIND (slave)

Justin,

I did all those steps, for each zone and each ptr zone. Nothing seems to
work. 
I did notice that one the $$$ DNS server wrote into the DNS log
transfers zone completed but the actual data did not make it into my
zone file.

It never did it again for me to troubleshoot.

-----Original Message-----
From: Dixon, Justin [mailto:Justin.Dixon at BBandT.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 8:03 AM
To: Donny Jekels; bind-users at isc.org
Subject: RE: WIndows DNS (master) -> BIND (slave)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On
Behalf Of Donny
> Jekels
> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 08:46
> To: bind-users at isc.org
> Subject: WIndows DNS (master) -> BIND (slave)
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I have tried just about everything to get bind to work as a slave for
> windows DNS server in the hopes to eventually replace windows DNS
server
> in our datacenter.
> 
> Did anyone have/had any luck to get this to work? Any light on this
> matter would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> 
> 
> Kind regards and thank you
> 
> 
> 
> Donny Jekels
> Breakwater Trading, LLC
> email djekels at breakwater.com <mailto:djekels at breakwater.com>
> office (312) 601-8115
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> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

If you are just doing a simple slave from MS DNS you can just set the
following in your named.conf for each zone you want to slave from the
Windows server.

zone "foo" IN {
	type slave;
	file "path/foo.db";
	masters { ip.address.of.windowsmaster; };
};

You will also need to make sure that on the Windows server you have
allowed the IP Address of your BIND server the ability to perform zone
transfers for each zone, or I think you can set it globally for all
zones on the Windows server.

You will also need to make sure that the user BIND is running as has
write access to the folder/files for each of the slave zones if you set
them up for files.

Justin Dixon