Active Directory DNS and BIND

[Chuck Swiger]

romero3000 at romero3000.com wrote:
> running Bind on one location and Microsoft DNS server with Active
> Direcotory integrated DNS zones at another location. Does anyone know if
> it is possible to perform zone transfers to the FreeBSD server??

Yes, named-xfer under FreeBSD works fine.  Also note that sufficiently 
modern versions of named will support the dynamic update protocol used 
by M$ clients.

 > Is it possible to perform zone transfers between an active directory 
enabled
> DNS server to a unix DNS server??? Any ideas???

Add something like the following to named.conf

zone "example.com" {
         type slave;
         file "example.com";
	 masters { _IP_of_M$_NS_ ; };
};

...and configure the M$ box to permit zone transfers from the FreeBSD 
system.

-Chuck