[CentOS] how to use dhcpd and bind with windows 2008 ad domain model?

Eero Volotinen eero.volotinen at iki.fi
Wed Aug 18 04:15:22 UTC 2010


2010/8/17 Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>:
> On 8/17/2010 1:06 PM, nux at li.nux.ro wrote:
>> Eero Volotinen writes:
>>
>>> This might be a bit offtopic, but:
>>>
>>> How to run bind and dhcpd as slave on windows 2008 ad domain.
>>>
>>> Is it possible?
>>>
>>
>>
>> Eero,
>>
>> Yeah, bit offtopic. Would like to see this answered on a M$ ml (do they
>> even have them?). AFAIK Bind runs on Windows (when I tried it installed and
>> ran fine apparently) and should be able to do transfers. No idea how the
>> Windows machine being an AD might change this (don't ADs run DNS by
>> default?).
>> No experience with isc dhcpd on Windows.
>
> Bind (running on anything) should be able to slave a zone to a windows
> dns server or AD just following standards.   I don't think there is an
> equivalent for dhcp failover but you could probably run it on two Centos
> servers with the clients registering with the AD server's DNS.

Well, windows usually does not follow standards without own microsoft  tricks.

If bind works with windows ad, it might require very special
configuration. (because ad is using RR and similar for it's own
purpose)
also dhcp requires authorization from ad (http://blog.studiographic.nl/?p=219)

--
Eero



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