HP-UX Slave DNS to Windows 2003 Master DNS

[Albert Goodman]

Does anyone have any pointers or experience regarding setting up a slave HP-UX 11i DNS server with a Master DNS server running on Windows 2003?

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

I tried this in my lab once. It was not pretty because Windows 2003 is not standards compliant.

If you export the DNS database from Windows and import it to HP-UX the database does appear to work.

The docs say this is possible.

Its also possible for me to bang my head against a wall until I get a headache, but more fun to simply drink too much coffee. The end result is the same.

To be serious, yes, this can be done and has been done.

This is terribly inprecise but I think there is a guide in my google search.

Here is the whole hairy mess:
http://www.google.co.il/search?q=HP-UX+DNS+Slave+windows+2003&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official

Ignore the Hebew, google thinks its knows what language I want answers in, just because I live in a Hebrew speaking country. The answers are almost all in English.

I don't expect any points for this, but hopefully my post was entertaining and the cookbook you are looking for is in the google thread.

Apologies if you found my reply offensive, unruly or not funny.

SEP

[Geoff Wild]

I don't have experience with DNS "Windows to HP" - but "Unix(Master) to Windows(slaves)".

If you are running ADS, there will be issues...

ADS, pre 2003 worked pretty well with Bind.

Since Windows 2003, MS has introduced new record types - which Bind doesn't know what to do with....

Even if your Unix DNS servers are slaves, they will still get corrupted...

One of the new records is something like "forestzone" - and in Bind, it is stored as an A record - which is incorrect - over time, that record contains ip's of multiple W2K3 servers - including those that have been de-commisioned...

Two safe ways for this to work - one is to split your DNS into 2 zones - one for MS and 1 for Unix - or two - don't run DNS on Unix at all - just on MS - that is the choice we are making - Unix resolver doesn't care about any MS DNS records - only needs to know A, PTR and MX...

Rgds...Geoff

[Albert Goodman]

Thank you all,

Not exactly the answer I was hoping, nevertheless your responses are appreciated.