DNS Replication

  • Thread starter Thread starter Lynne
  • Start date Start date
L

Lynne

How do I set up replication between 2 non active directory
DNS servers. The servers have win 2000 Advanced Server
but do not have active directory I want to keep them that
way. How can I do zone transfers form the primary to the
secondary and back.

Thanks
 
How do I set up replication between 2 non active directory
DNS servers. The servers have win 2000 Advanced Server
but do not have active directory I want to keep them that
way. How can I do zone transfers form the primary to the
secondary and back.

Thanks
Click to expand...
Hi Lynne,

the idea of primary and secondary is the same as PDC and BDC in Windows NT 4.0.

So you can set the primary server to allow zonetransfers (either to all
servers, to specific IPs or to servers listed on the nameserver tab - I'd use
one of the last two options).

When setting up a secondary zone you'll have to configure which is the primary
server for the zone.

You won't be able to transfer them back, all writes will be done on the primary
zone and replicated to the secondarys.

Note also that you are not able to configure secure dynamic updates if the
zones are not active directory integrated.

Gruesse - Sincerely,

Ulf B. Simon-Weidner
 
-----Original Message-----
Hi Lynne,

the idea of primary and secondary is the same as PDC and BDC in Windows NT 4.0.

So you can set the primary server to allow zonetransfers (either to all
servers, to specific IPs or to servers listed on the nameserver tab - I'd use
one of the last two options).

When setting up a secondary zone you'll have to configure which is the primary
server for the zone.

You won't be able to transfer them back, all writes will be done on the primary
zone and replicated to the secondarys.

Note also that you are not able to configure secure dynamic updates if the
zones are not active directory integrated.

Gruesse - Sincerely,

Ulf B. Simon-Weidner
.
Click to expand...

Let me be a little more specific... The answer did not
address the issue....

In active directories you can create a new zone, and it
will replicate to all the other DNS servers in the domain.

How can you do that without using active directories.
The problem is we have both Microsoft and non-Microsoft
(bind-9) DNS servers in the domain. I am only trying to
do this between one Microsoft Standard Primary and
another Microsoft Standard Primary or Microsoft Standard
Secondary. Moving everything to AD is impossible for us
to do at this time.

Thanks
Click to expand...
 
Hi Lynne and others,
The answer to the second part is that you Can't. As defined per RFC
you can't have 2 primary zones for the same zone get them to update
eachother. We worked around that with Multi-Master replication use of
directory services.

The only other method is Primary Standard to Secondary.. OR you
"manually" keep both primaries the same.

Thank you,

Alan Wood[MSFT]

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
 
-----Original Message-----


Let me be a little more specific... The answer did not
address the issue....

In active directories you can create a new zone, and it
will replicate to all the other DNS servers in the domain.

How can you do that without using active directories.
The problem is we have both Microsoft and non-Microsoft
(bind-9) DNS servers in the domain. I am only trying to
do this between one Microsoft Standard Primary and
another Microsoft Standard Primary or Microsoft Standard
Secondary. Moving everything to AD is impossible for us
to do at this time.

Thanks
Click to expand...
Hi Lynne,

as Alan wrote you are not able to use multiple Primary DNS-Servers (per RFC)
and you wrote that you are not able to integrate everything into AD right now.

However, there are two options for you:
Either use Windows DNS as primary, then you'd be able to integrate the zone in
Windows in AD, and have a zone-transfer to a secondary in a non-Windows based
DNS, or use the non-Windows DNS as primary and make a zone transfer to Windows
DNS.

Using the first option will provide you with a multiple master DNS Zone and you
still have the secondary in the 3rd-party DNS; using the second option you are
able to have just on primary DNS-Server in the 3rd-party DNS, but both
solutions provide you with a functional DNS-Infrastrukture held in both worlds.

Gruesse - Sincerely,

Ulf B. Simon-Weidner
Click to expand...
 
Back
Top