Coming from someone that has no clue about active directory... If your using a 
basic zone, why don't you have the AD server deployed outside of cloudstack s 
control. Then point have your dns entries point to it. Have the default 
security group for guests open to the ports AD works on.

Ahmad

On Apr 22, 2013, at 1:42 PM, David Ortiz <dpor...@outlook.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>    I am trying to setup a Windows AD server as a guest on my cloudstack 
> cluster, and join my other guests to the domain it is serving using 
> PowerBroker Identity Services Open.  From what I am seeing, the virtual 
> router will block me from being able to perform nslookup or join the domain 
> using the domainjoin-cli command.  If I modify /etc/resolv.conf to point 
> directly at my DC as the dns server, it can join the domain without any 
> issues.  Unfortunately when I reboot, the dhcp setup with the virtual router 
> will point it back to the virtual router as the name server.  I also found 
> that I could get nslookup (but not joining the domain) to work by playing 
> with the dnsmasq.conf settings on the virtual router a little bit, which 
> works until it is rebooted at which point they revert back to what they had 
> been originally.  Is there a way to get the virtual router to point guests at 
> the domain controller as the DNS, or to set up the dnsmasq to allow the AD 
> joins to occur (and make those settings persistent)?  Or alternatively, would 
> I be able to set up DHCP on the DC and just circumvent the virtual router 
> entirely?
> Thanks,
>     David Ortiz                         

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