Using Bind and Windows DNS

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Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 19:01:48 -0800

what kind os is on your current windows dns machine? If
it's running w2k, you can consider to promote it to be a
DC, the first or the second (use the w2k machine
mentioned as the first one). If it's running NT, upgrade
it. Then you can use the BIND machines to be the
secondaries.

>-----Original Message-----
>Some one some where must be doing the following:
>We run BIND on VMS for all our internal DNS needs, this
is acutally split
>over 3 servers, with 2 being VMS and the 3rd is a
Windows server.(1 primary
>and 2 secondary servers)
>All the desktops and servers point to these Bind servers
for all look ups,
>unless it cant be found, then the request is sent to our
ISP's Bind servers.
>All the clients have entries in Bind of
host.company.co.uk
>My ideal plan is to set up Active Directory but have a
an AD name of
>"company.ad" we wont/shouldnt be publishing the AD on
the internet.
>So what i'd like to do is run DNS on a Windows 2000
server yet not have to
>go round and reconfigure all the clients to point to a
new server.
>I know i can do it if the AD was a child domain, ie
ad.company.co.uk. By
>adding NS entries to the Bind server pointing to the
Windows DNS server.
>If any one can point me to a document that walks you
through it. i'd be more
>than gratefull.
>Tried all the MS white papers, they say you can do it,
but dont go into a
>real detail on how, which is hardly suprising though.
>The DNS and Bind book by oreily only says about using
Bind not about mixing.
>
>Any help or hints much appreciated.
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>--
>Robb
>'97 Firestorm
>
>
>.
>

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