Your desire is a bit unclear.  Regardless, stop thinking about rendom. ;-)  My guess is that you want to consolidate DNS domains currently hosted on BIND to W2K3 DC/DNS servers.  This is a fairly trivial exercise from a server perspective.  The following basic steps are required:

 

1.    Configure the BIND server to allow secondary zone transfers to your favorite W2K3 DC/DNS server.

2.    Configure the W2K3 DC/DNS server to host a secondary zone for the zone configured in (1) above.

3.    Modify the delegation for the zone in the “parent” zone to include the W2K3 DC/DNS server.

4.    Modify the configuration of the zone on the W2K3 DC/DNS server marking it as AD Integrated.

5.    Wait for replication of the zone to complete.

6.    Modify the delegation for the zone in the “parent” zone to include ALL the W2K3 DC/DNS servers that will host a copy of the zone.

7.    Remove the zone from the BIND server.

 

At this point the W2K3 DNS server will have a copy of the zone – other options to complete this portion do exist such as forklifting the zone files which in your case (with many zones) could be much more acceptable from an administrative perspective.

 

While the above will work in many environments there could be factors in your infrastructure that could be problematic such as how DNS is interconnected throughout the organization, where clients point to for Primary/Secondary, etc.  One way to work around these potential issues is to reconfigure the BIND server with a secondary zone (for each moved zone) until you can properly resolve all the issues associated with the move.

 

HTH

 

Aric

 

 


From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott McIntosh
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 4:51 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [ActiveDir]

 

Our company has the following DNS architecture (this is somewhat oversimplified but illustrates the point):

                                                                 COM

                                                                      |

                                                        ABCCORP  (hosted on UNIX BIND)

                                                              /         \    

(hosted on AD-integrated        DIR            FR               UK                  US - etc.
(hosted on UNIX BIND)
     W2k3 DNS)
                                        /      |     \           \                  \                           \

                                  AM     EU       AS        Seton (etc)    Gilly (etc)       Marshal  (etc)      (many domains at this level)
                                /              \            \

                    
Marshal  (etc)   Seton (etc)   Wong (etc)


DIR.ABCCORP.COM is the W2k3 AD forest root domain. Currently clients and WIndows servers capable of DNS self-registration register in AD. All non-Windows servers are registered in BIND.  I want to simplify..  simplify  ....simplify the DNS architecture and host as much as possible on AD-integrated Server 2003 DNS.


Under the current architecture, could this be accomplished using rendom.exe (Domain Rename tool)? Or would this require an entire AD restructure and be a logistical nightmare to migrate? What would be the steps to accomplish this? In the EU.DIR.ABCCORP.COM domain, the AD implementation is nearly fully implemented and there are many locations. It is W2k3 forest and domain functional level.

If it would be very difficult to implement, what is the maximum degree of AD-integrated Server 2003 hosting which could be achieved given this scenario?

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