[129803] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Active Directory requires Microsoft DNS?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Eisenberg)
Mon Sep 20 12:17:10 2010
From: Nathan Eisenberg <nathan@atlasnetworks.us>
To: Tom Mikelson <tmikelson@gmail.com>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:16:24 +0000
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If your AD domain is a subdomain, like corp.job.com, you can always delegat=
e the subdomain's name service to the MS DNS servers from the BIND servers.=
That way, you don't have to make huge changes to your existing environmen=
t.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Mikelson [mailto:tmikelson@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 7:05 AM
> To: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Active Directory requires Microsoft DNS?
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> Presently our organization utilizes BIND for DNS services, with the Netwo=
rking
> 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 tha=
t the
> Active Directory implementation requires the Microsoft DNS service and
> dynamic DNS. Not being a Microsoft administrator I do not know the verac=
ity
> of these claims. Anyone out there had any experiences with a situation l=
ike
> this? I am a bit leery of changing something that is already working.
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