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Re: Active Directory requires Microsoft DNS?
From: Jeff Kell <jeff-kell () utc edu>
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 10:17:28 -0400
That has been the stock MS answer for a long time, but at least W2K8 makes a few concessions. Technet has some references on making "bind" configurations to work with AD, specifically the statement (and here's perhaps the best place to start...):
When a domain controller is promoted, a file named NETLOGON.DNS is created in the %systemroot%\system32\config folder. This file contains all of the DNS entries the domain controller would register. This file can be used to aid in statically entering Active Directory DNS records.
There are still "assumptions" that not only will MS provide DNS, but also DHCP, and even if you poke both of them properly with non-MS tools, you still have to insure that your naming conventions are going to work together properly (e.g., search suffix on DNS lookups to resolve domain resources when Windows clients will inevitably use an unqualified \\servername\sharename to access things). Get your windows folks in the habit of fully-qualifying servernames.domain.tld instead. Jeff On 9/20/2010 10:04 AM, Tom Mikelson wrote:
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.
Current thread:
- Active Directory requires Microsoft DNS? Tom Mikelson (Sep 20)
- Re: Active Directory requires Microsoft DNS? Jared Mauch (Sep 20)
- RE: Active Directory requires Microsoft DNS? Matthew Huff (Sep 20)
- Re: Active Directory requires Microsoft DNS? John Peach (Sep 20)
- Re: Active Directory requires Microsoft DNS? Jeroen Massar (Sep 20)
- RE: Active Directory requires Microsoft DNS? Matlock, Kenneth L (Sep 20)
- Re: Active Directory requires Microsoft DNS? JoeSox (Sep 20)
- Re: Active Directory requires Microsoft DNS? Jack Bates (Sep 20)
- Re: Active Directory requires Microsoft DNS? Jeff Kell (Sep 20)
- RE: Active Directory requires Microsoft DNS? Jamie Bowden (Sep 20)
- RE: Active Directory requires Microsoft DNS? Nathan Eisenberg (Sep 20)
- Re: Active Directory requires Microsoft DNS? Darren Pilgrim (Sep 24)
- Re: Active Directory requires Microsoft DNS? Phil Regnauld (Sep 24)
- Re: Active Directory requires Microsoft DNS? Darren Pilgrim (Sep 24)
- Re: Active Directory requires Microsoft DNS? Daniel (Sep 24)
- Re: Active Directory requires Microsoft DNS? Phil Regnauld (Sep 24)