bind and MS DNS

I have a small linux-based subnet that I administer at work. I have my
own dhcp and named servers behind a firewall.

The main network runs Windows Server 2003 - based DNS servers. Is there a
how-to somewhere that describes how to get MS DNS to act as a slave to a
ISC BIND daemon, and/or how to set up zone transfers between the two?

I know how to set up zone transfers between two BIND daemons; I know
nothing about MS DNS.

I've googled about; everything seems to assume that one is fairly
knowledgeable about MS DNS. Alas, that is not so...

On 09/21/05 05:14, Captain Dondo wrote:
> I have a small linux-based subnet that I administer at work. I have my
> own dhcp and named servers behind a firewall.
>
> The main network runs Windows Server 2003 - based DNS servers. Is there a
> how-to somewhere that describes how to get MS DNS to act as a slave to a
> ISC BIND daemon, and/or how to set up zone transfers between the two?
>
> I know how to set up zone transfers between two BIND daemons; I know
> nothing about MS DNS.
>
> I've googled about; everything seems to assume that one is fairly
> knowledgeable about MS DNS. Alas, that is not so...
>

Ask the admin of the Windows Server. To set up zone transfers between
two BIND daemons the person will have to configre the server on Windows.

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On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 20:14:49 -0700, Captain Dondo wrote:

> I have a small linux-based subnet that I administer at work. I have my
> own dhcp and named servers behind a firewall.
>
> The main network runs Windows Server 2003 - based DNS servers. Is there a
> how-to somewhere that describes how to get MS DNS to act as a slave to a
> ISC BIND daemon, and/or how to set up zone transfers between the two?
>
> I know how to set up zone transfers between two BIND daemons; I know
> nothing about MS DNS.
>
> I've googled about; everything seems to assume that one is fairly
> knowledgeable about MS DNS. Alas, that is not so...
>
Are you the administrator for the "main network?" You could put ISC
BIND on the Windows 2003 box, according to this:
http://www.isc.org/sw/dl/?pkg=bind/c...ows%20Binaries

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On 09/21/2005 08:44 AM, Captain Dondo wrote:
> I have a small linux-based subnet that I administer at work. I have my
> own dhcp and named servers behind a firewall.

Just need to add:

allow-transfer { ip.of.your.win2k3.server1; ...server2; };

to master zone entries of named running on Linux and restart named.

> The main network runs Windows Server 2003 - based DNS servers. Is there a
> how-to somewhere that describes how to get MS DNS to act as a slave to a
> ISC BIND daemon, and/or how to set up zone transfers between the two?

I don't have a windows server close at hand right now, but did it some
time back in the days when I was managing a win2k server.

It is almost same on this side too, and I think it would be better you
config your bind at Linux as slave, transfer all the zones from win2k3
server to Linux:

0. enable and, or allow tranfer of zones on your win2k3 server to your
Linux box's ip.
1. stop bind on Linux server
2. delete all the zone entries and, or files from your /var/cache/bind
and, or /var/lib/bind.
3. start bind, and check wheather is has aquired all the zone
definitions from win2k3 server.
4. modify the bind zones on Linux to make these as master.
5. restart bind on Linux.
6. Now delete all the zone entries on win2k3 server and redefine and, or
add slave zones by reading win help.
7. restart DNS service on win2k3 server.

and ... that's it.

> I know how to set up zone transfers between two BIND daemons; I know
> nothing about MS DNS.

Press F1, and search the windows help.

> I've googled about; everything seems to assume that one is fairly
> knowledgeable about MS DNS. Alas, that is not so...

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