Windows 2000 DNS and BIND

[Biomech]

I currently have a NT 4.0 PDC with two UNIX DNS servers running BIND, one for internal address resolution and the other for external address resolution. I plan to upgrade to Win 2K with Active Directory, but I want to keep the current DNS servers and add in the Win 2K DNS. I was thinking:

• Keep the current external DNS server the same
• Keep the current internal DNS server as the root server
• Configure the Win 2K DNS for dynamic updates

Has anyone implemented this config, seen this config, or have any comments on this config? Any help or advice is welcome.

Thanks in advance.

 

[jrjuiliano]

Hi,

If you plan on implementing Active Directory then your Primary Domain Controller is going to want to have DNS in place and used for AD.

From what I understand, you can have BIND configured to run with Active Directory, and allow dymanic updates between the two, but Active Directory really wants its own DNS to be the Big Dog in this endeavour.

My disclaimer is that I've never attempted this, nor know enough about BIND to help out any more. I believe I read some initial articles on techrepublic.com or perhaps through a Google search on integrating AD with BIND, but it's all pretty fuzzy to me right now! J.R. Juiliano
Information Systems Specialist
Tri-City Emergency Medical Group

 

[RLE]

AD want to have it`s own DNS server, so you can use BIND for that, but is better if it is Windows DNS Server. I think the best solution is:

- Keep the current external DNS server the same
- Configure DNS server in your AD Domain Controllers, move to it your internal domains, and use them for AD and for internal domains. So, quit the BIND wich has the internal domains actually. Configure the new Windows DNS servers to use your external BIND server as forwarder.

I´ve been woking with this configuration and it is OK.