Primary must update from new Win2k DNS

[PSS SYS ADMIN]

Hi everyone,
I have a primary hpux 11.00 dns server with bind 4.9.7.
Now we have 2 new win2k DNS servers.
The HPUX server must refresh his records from the new 2 win2k servers.
How can I do this?
Thank you.

Regards...
PSS

[Geoff Wild]

First - I suggest you update to Bind 9:

http://software.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=BIND9.2

Basically, you setup your HP=UX server to be a secondary for the zones you want to have from W2K servers....

Other points of reference:

http://www.isc.org

http://www.nominum.com/getOpenSourceResource.php?id=6

http://www.nominum.com/content/documents/bind9arm.pdf

Rgds...Geoff

[PSS SYS ADMIN]

I cannot update to bind 9 because of some internal reasons.

I need that this hpux 11.00 DNS bind 4.9.7 server must update all of the zones dinamically from the new Win2k DNS servers.

Is it possible and how?

[Jeroen Peereboom]

PSS,

if you refer to 'dynamic DNS' you really need to upgrade. 4.9.7 is too old for that.

Maybe it's better to move all DNS functionality to the new win2k servers (although I do not like that at all as Unix guy). Or cache-only?

JP.

[Geoff Wild]

You can NOT do dynamic updates with Bind 4.9.7 - earliest version supported is 8.....


Rgds...Geoff

[Geoff Wild]

BTW - if you don't need "dynamic" updates - but just need zone transfers to work from W2K to Bind 4, then you just configure your Bind 4 as a "Slave"....

This Web page has a walk through on "configuring bind":

http://www.busan.edu/~nic/networking/tcpip/ch08_03.htm

Rgds...Geoff

[harry d brown jr]

I agree with Geoff and Jeroen. You should either upgrade to bind 9.2 and then decide if you want to make your HPux box a SECONDARY to the windoze boxes or a CACHEING DNS server. Installing BIND 9.2 will NOT require a reboot - Though I recommend it to make sure applications are using the new libraries.

windoze's w2k dynamic DNS is a diaster waiting to happen because it allows clients to update the DNS database on the fly. The windoze idiot(s) that came up with that one should be caned! I'm wondering how long it will take before someone writes a virsus/worm to exploit this! Nothing like not having a DNS server unavailable. Look here for help: http://wss.yale.edu/win2k/ad-and-ddns.html


live free or die
harry

[PSS SYS ADMIN]

If I decide to make my hpux 11 bind 4.9.7 a SECONDARY to the Win2k PRIMARY server what I have to do?

[Geoff Wild · Accepted solution]

Did you go to the link I provided?

Your named.boot:

;
; yourdomain.com secondary nameserver boot file.
;
directory /etc
secondary yourdomain.com AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD yourdomain.com.hosts
secondary BBB.AAA.IN-ADDR.ARPA AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD AAA.BBB.rev
primary 0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA named.local
cache . named.ca


AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD is ip address of Windows DNS Server


stop/start named


Here's another link for you to read:

http://www.faqs.org/docs/linux_network/x-087-2-resolv.named.html

Rgds...Geoff