I have seen BIND to MS DNS zone transfers work fine before. -- Thanks, Joe
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 7:13 AM, Matlock, Kenneth L <[email protected]> wrote: > Active directly is tied fairly closely to it's DNS. > > For example, if a client needs to find a Domain Controller, it does a > DNS 'SRV' query for (I think, I'm doing this from memory) > '_LDAP._TCP.domain.com/org/net/whatever'. I assume other 'services' like > LDAP are 'advertised' (if you can call it that) via DNS as well. > > You MAY be able to duplicate all the records in BIND, but expect random > things to not work, and have to do a bunch of research figuring out what > DNS query it's doing, and what the proper answer is. > > Ken Matlock > Network Analyst > Exempla Healthcare > (303) 467-4671 > [email protected] > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Mikelson [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 8:05 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Active Directory requires Microsoft DNS? > > Presently our organization utilizes BIND for DNS services, with the > Networking team administering. We are now being told by the Systems > team > that they will be responsible for DNS services and that it will be > changed > over to the Microsoft DNS service run on domain controllers. The reason > given is that the Active Directory implementation requires the Microsoft > DNS > service and dynamic DNS. Not being a Microsoft administrator I do not > know > the veracity of these claims. Anyone out there had any experiences with > a > situation like this? I am a bit leery of changing something that is > already > working. > >
