Actually, that's not true.

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
Tim Fournet
Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 2:29 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Offsite DNS hosting for Active Directory

Even if you've got the DNS portion of Active Directory replicated, when the 
rest of AD comes crashing down, you're going to have major work-stopping 
outages happening pretty quickly. Why not just bring up offsite hosted full 
domain controllers?

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Dustin Puryear 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Well, we're looking for an offsite service that WE DON'T HAVE TO MANAGE. Like 
an EasyDNS service. Hmm.

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 
[mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf 
Of Keith Stokes
Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 1:28 PM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Offsite DNS hosting for Active Directory

Damn.  Brad can type faster than me.

On Oct 1, 2010, at 1:25 PM, Brad Bendily wrote:

> We don't use a service to do this, but we host AD DC DNS on our
> Linux/BIND DNS boxes.
> I haven't done the AD side, but apparently there's a tool to extract
> the DNS entries and then
> they can get imported into BIND. So, it should be fairly easy to do.
> You could also setup
> a master/slave trust between the zones and the entries can be pulled
> that way.
> If you had a DNS host, running linux that would open to trying a few
> things.
>
>
> bb
>
> On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Dustin Puryear 
> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
> > wrote:
>> We have a [common] situation where a company has a single site, has
>> Active
>> Directory, and only has one Domain Controller (DC). We could bring
>> up a
>> second DC, but there are hardware and licensing costs. That, and
>> most AD
>> networks that are workstation-heavy can survive quite well after a
>> DC goes
>> down for a good bit of time. If you exclude the fact that the DC is
>> also the
>> DNS primary for that network.
>>
>>
>>
>> Anyone know of a DNS hosting service that is known to play well
>> with hosting
>> secondary DNS for AD DNS?
>>
>>
>>
>> And what are your thoughts on this in terms of security? Anyone
>> using a
>> hosting service to provide secondary DNS capabilities for internal
>> DNS?
>>
>>
>>
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