I've
got a MUCH easier way to do it.
Set
your Windows boxes up to secondary the zones from the existing DNS servers -
that way you'll get a 100% complete, current file, with next to no effort on
either side.
Then,
when you're ready, simply change the Windows boxes to be either Primary or AD
Integrated for the zones, and if necessary set the Sun boxes to be the
secondaries.
The
only issue I've ever come across in doing this (and I've moved probably 100+
zones this way) is if the Windows boxes are already secondarying the zone,
changing it to AD integrated on one doesn't change it on any others. That can be
fixed easily through the use of dnscmd.exe from the Resource
Kits.
Roger
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Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP
Sr. Systems Administrator
Inovis Inc.
Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP
Sr. Systems Administrator
Inovis Inc.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jordan, Jason [EPM/AUS] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 12:50 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: [ActiveDir] Sun Formatted Zone Files: Can DNSDump Help?I have a challenge for the group. I'm sure that someone else out there has seen this same issue.We are migrating from an NT 4.0 domain and Sun DNS to Windows Server 2003 Active Directory and DNS. The Sun admins gave us a text file of the DNS zones, and we were able to successfully import the forward lookup zones to Windows 2003. However, the reverse lookup zone import fails with the error 0xc011d501. My research into this error leads me to believe that the problem is with the formatting of the text file but I have been unable to find an example of what a properly formatted DNS zone text file should look like.So here is my question. Will the DNSDump utility referenced in this message, http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg09084.html, help us to import reverse lookup zones from the Sun formatted text files? Is there a specification for what a properly formatted DNS zone text file should look like, and if so, where can I find it?Please let me know if I left out any pertinent information. Thanks in advance for all of your help.jasonjordan MCSE, MCP+I, MCP
Sr. SQL DBA/Windows Network Administrator
Emerson Process Management, Process Systems Division, Austin Data Center
(512) 832-3191
