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Matt
This post, if anyone is willing to participate may go on for a while. I am
hoping to create a dialog for my sake as well as the sake of others. If you
wish to participate and have useful input, please by all means I'd
appreciate your help.
I recently took a job at a company where I am tasked with "cleaning up the
dns." It was presented as an easy task and I think it may be harder and
will encompass more than just a flick of a switch. Without further ado,
here is the environment:
One forest.
One domain tree we'll call domain.com.
Eight child domains of domain.com e.g. abc.domain.com.
Six physical multi-continental sites - no logical sites used in active
directory.
Two domain controllers in the root domain domain.com we'll call the
controllers AD01.domain.com and AD02.domain.com.
Each of the eight domains has one domain controller and every one is a
global catalog.
AD01 (win2k3) runs a third party DNS package called Meta IP from
www.metainfo.com.
AD02 (win2k) runs win2k DNS as secondary's for all the zones on AD01.
Nothing is active directory integrated.
No remote sites have dns servers. The remote sites all point backwards
across the world to AD01 thru WAN links.
AD01 is set to forward to unix servers in our DMZ that host our public zones
(stupid).
My goal is to get rid of Meta IP and make every physical site have its own
active directory integrated DNS server.
Where is a good place to start. I feel overwhelmed!!!
I know this is a hodge podge of info and may not be enough. that is why i
am trying to start a dialog.
Please respond back with questions if you have them.
Thank you
Matt
hoping to create a dialog for my sake as well as the sake of others. If you
wish to participate and have useful input, please by all means I'd
appreciate your help.
I recently took a job at a company where I am tasked with "cleaning up the
dns." It was presented as an easy task and I think it may be harder and
will encompass more than just a flick of a switch. Without further ado,
here is the environment:
One forest.
One domain tree we'll call domain.com.
Eight child domains of domain.com e.g. abc.domain.com.
Six physical multi-continental sites - no logical sites used in active
directory.
Two domain controllers in the root domain domain.com we'll call the
controllers AD01.domain.com and AD02.domain.com.
Each of the eight domains has one domain controller and every one is a
global catalog.
AD01 (win2k3) runs a third party DNS package called Meta IP from
www.metainfo.com.
AD02 (win2k) runs win2k DNS as secondary's for all the zones on AD01.
Nothing is active directory integrated.
No remote sites have dns servers. The remote sites all point backwards
across the world to AD01 thru WAN links.
AD01 is set to forward to unix servers in our DMZ that host our public zones
(stupid).
My goal is to get rid of Meta IP and make every physical site have its own
active directory integrated DNS server.
Where is a good place to start. I feel overwhelmed!!!
I know this is a hodge podge of info and may not be enough. that is why i
am trying to start a dialog.
Please respond back with questions if you have them.
Thank you
Matt