Migrating from Bind DNS to Windows 2003 DNS

[HupAhh]

Hi all,

I have a requirement at the moment to add a legacy Bind DNS zone to a Windows 2003 server. I found this step by step guide (

http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-6350_11-5084484.html)

and added my Windows server to the Allow Transfer section of named.conf but I still get an error in Windows saying it could not complete the zone transfer.

I restarted the Bind service on the Linux server and the DNS service on the Windows box but that didn't work. There's no firewall between the 2 servers so that isn't a problem either.

Anything else I need to check? S
Thanks,
PEB

 

[lhuegele]

How large is the zone? I seem to remember a previous message here relating to that. If it's a very large zone (lots of entries) that may cause a problem for DNS on the Windows server.

good luck,

 

[elgrandeperro]

Is there dnssec or keys on the bind server? Also, you might want to check using nslookup from the windows side that first you can access port 53 and second the transfer is allowed.

Start/Run/cmd:

nslookup - IPADDRESSOFLINXSERVER
>

http://www.somethingthatexists.com

see that it resolves.

nslookup - IPADDRESSOFLINXSERVER
> ls -d zonethatyouwantotransfer.com.
(don't forget the trailing dot)

 

[HupAhh]

This is the error I get in the Windows server:

20080108 09:01:09 B1C PACKET UDP Rcv 192.1.2.4 73a4 R Q [8580 R REFUSED] (3)test(0)

I've done a bit more digging and it does look like security. I noticed that at the start of named.conf on the Linux server there's a line to include rndc.key. Do I need to copy this key to my Windows 2003 server...if so where to?

Thanks,
Paul

 

[HupAhh]

OK, found the problem....should have spotted it earlier. I had modified the allow transfer to the windows server but not allow query which should have been the first thing I did...working now, thanks for the tips.

P