[129799] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Active Directory requires Microsoft DNS?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JoeSox)
Mon Sep 20 10:24:15 2010
In-Reply-To: <4288131ED5E3024C9CD4782CECCAD2C70B9A2E09@LMC-MAIL2.exempla.org>
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 07:23:08 -0700
From: JoeSox <joesox@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I have seen BIND to MS DNS zone transfers work fine before.
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Thanks, Joe
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 7:13 AM, Matlock, Kenneth L
<MatlockK@exempla.org> 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
> matlockk@exempla.org
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Mikelson [mailto:tmikelson@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 8:05 AM
> To: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Active Directory requires Microsoft DNS?
>
> Presently our organization utilizes BIND for DNS services, with the
> Networking team administering. =A0We 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. =A0The reaso=
n
> given is that the Active Directory implementation requires the Microsoft
> DNS
> service and dynamic DNS. =A0Not being a Microsoft administrator I do not
> know
> the veracity of these claims. =A0Anyone out there had any experiences wit=
h
> a
> situation like this? =A0I am a bit leery of changing something that is
> already
> working.
>
>
