BIND integration with windows DNS

Kalman Feher kalman.feher at melbourneit.com.au
Tue Jul 27 07:17:21 UTC 2010




On 27/07/10 8:10 AM, "Arnoud Tijssen" <ATijssen at Ram.nl> wrote:

> I`m facing kind of a challenge. At the moment we have BIND and windows DNS
> within our corporate network.
> 
> I would like to get rid of windows DNS and switch completely over to BIND, but
> since DNS is so intertwined with AD this is not an option since it probably
> introduces more problems then it solves
> 
> So my next option was to delegate all the windows specific subdomains (i.e.
> _tcp.example.com, _udp.example.com, _sites.example.com, _msdcs.example.com
> etc.) to windows DNS for dynamic updates and let the main domain,
> .example.com, reside on BIND. After setting up BIND and windows DNS and
> removing the main domain entry from the windows DNS servers, leaving only the
> windows specific subdomains, and pointing the dns resolvers of windows to the
> BIND servers the windows clients were unable to register themselves within DNS
> and AD properly. It seems the clients register themselves in the main zone
> file of the domain, which resides on BIND.
> 
> Since I don`t want all dynamic updates from windows clients polluting my main
> zone file, but still want one primary DNS serving the main domain instead of
> two, BIND and windows, what it is the best option if there is one.
> 
Create a subdomain for your clients and delegate it to the Windows servers,
who will then receive the updates.

> Any advise would greatly be appreciated.
> 
> Cheers,
> Arnoud
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Kal Feher 




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