Forward DHCP & DNS to linux servers

[ryanATmatraex]

First, this is a not a production server (YET). It's safe to play around with it and mess things up .

I have windows server 2003 enterprise that I'd like to setup as a DC. I'm running into what I believe are DNS/DHCP issues.

We have DHCP being hosted from one linux server and DNS being hosted from another linux server. DHCP is on IP: X.147 DNS is on IP: X.133.

I can't ping the FQNS of the domain ie: testpdc.local from the workstations even if I do get them to join the Domain which is a 10 min login process. Even from the DC when I start nslookup I see this

"*** Can't find server name for address 192.168.0.3: Non-existent domain
Default Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.0.3"

When it should look like this

"Default Server: server01.testpdc.local
Address: 192.168.100.3"

So I'm wondering a few things.

1. Should I even have the server 2003 setup as a DNS and DHCP server?
2. If I do set it up as a DNS and/or DHCP server what setting do I need in order to point the server to the X.147 & X.133 IP addresses of the right DCHP & DNS servers?
3. What should my TCP/IP settings look like on the server?
4. What should my TCP/IP settings look like on the workstations?

Of course I can't have 2 servers running DNS and DHCP so I'm hoping there is a way to tell the windows server with AD running which servers to use so it can pass the right settings to the work stations & so it can resolve DN's.

 

[theravager]

Windows uses a lot of records types that are only supported on fairly new versions of linux/unix dns.

You can have 2 or more dns systems running together with no issues and unless theres a ex termly compelling reason not to do so I would go this path. Just forwards your external dns lookups to the existing linux setup. If you need to connect to linux systems either create a secondary zone on windows or create static wins or dns records for the required services.

As to dhcp theres not really enough info to make a recommendation for you as it depends on if the systems are on the same subnets or if you have a preference which system you want to run with. Both systems will do everything you require with windows being fairly effortless in comparision to admin.