On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 17:00:25 -0400, Scot L. Harris <webid@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 16:39, Steven Stern wrote: > > I have a client running a Windows2000 domain with the PDC also serving as the > > only DNS for the office. Until we get another W2K server set up, I'd like to > > put up a backup DNS so the people can at least talk among themselves and get > > out to the 'net if the PDC is down. > > > > I have an old PC that I will install a headless FC2 on and run pretty much > > just SSH and BIND. I've got a stack of articles from Google on how to > > configure a UNIX DNS that will support Active Directory, but my bet is that > > someone here has a short and sweet solution to doing this. Any links or > > suggestions will be well appreciated. > > If you are only setting up a backup DNS sever then simply configure it > as a slave of the primary. Any changes you make on the primary will be > propagated to the secondary DNS server. > > Now the real is how to configure the Windows DNS service to talk to the > secondary DNS server. On a linux box you would change the configuration > files to list it as a slave. Not sure how you do that under Windows. > > Setting up a linux box as a BDC is a whole different topic. > > -- > Scot L. Harris > webid@xxxxxxxxxx > > According to all the latest reports, there was no truth in any of the > earlier reports. > > > Active Directory, PDC, BDC? there ain't no such things in AD as PDC and BDCs, it's a multimaster environment. Lets get that straight first. Following that logic, you really don't want to do it on a Linux machine because Windows DNS running AD integrated mode also supports multimaster mode, meaning you can make changes on any DNS server and it will get propagated to all the other DNS servers, given that they are all AD integrated as well. The zone files will be stored in AD instead of text files also. But, if you have to do it the traditional Master/Slave mode, you will have to create ALL of the SRV zones and hope they'll get updated. I would just let Windows DNS handle the AD part, and setup BIND on FC2 in front of it to do the forwarding for external queries. Yang
