Answers from cache or authority section?

[John Horne]

On Tue, 2013-06-25 at 17:20 +0100, Phil Mayers wrote:
> On 25/06/13 16:53, John Horne wrote:
> 
> > servers. However, there is a whole load of muttering that Microsoft and
> > AD won't like that; it's all integrated with each other; running the DNS
> > zone on Linux servers will be a problem with the MS servers etc etc.
> 
> I'm sure you know this, but just in case - that is FUD.
>
Yes, so I gather. Unfortunately because I deal with the Linux side of
things, I don't carry much weight here at all when trying to point out
that we can integrate the MS stuff with the Linux servers.

> As long as you setup appropriate dynamic update ACLs, AD works fine with bind DNS 
> servers.
>
That is my understanding, and I have been saying it for a very long time
now. It may well be that our current problem, despite the fact it took
someone external to point it out!, is enough to get our DNS correctly
sorted out (with respect to visible/accessible name servers).

> Happy to discuss this offline if it helps.
>
Okay, thanks. The guy who knows the most about our AD/Exchange setup is
on hols for the week, but I'll let him know when he returns.



John.

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