Because I have a couple of dozen remote DCs that serve DNS for their locations. Our unix boxes are in a DNS zone that is handled by bind/unix server. All of my DCs carry this zone as a secondary.
This works fine, but it is a bit of a pain to maintain. I have to remember to configure the zone on any new DCs, and I have to have the unix guys add a "notify" line on the bind server for the new DCs (OK, I don't HAVE to do the notify part...). Plus, replication of the zone is handled by DNS instead of the much more efficient AD replication. Ever since laying eyes on w2k3 DNS server, I've always wondered why the developers didn't allow for integrated secondaries. Don't get me wrong, integrated stubs are great, but between the two, I'd have thought integrated secondaries would have been the more desirable. I just assumed I was missing some technical reason that made it unfeasible. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 11:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Why no AD integrated DNS secondary zones? Because when it's integrated, there is no concept of "secondaries" as we understood it to be in pre-2Kx world. It's there in AD, and any DC can see and write to it. Now, if you are secondarying the zones on another server located in another forest/network, why would you want to store that info in your own AD. You will not be modifying that zone locally on the secondary anyway. Or, are you intending to? Sincerely, Dèjì Akómöláfé, MCSE+M MCSA+M MCP+I Microsoft MVP - Directory Services www.readymaids.com - we know IT www.akomolafe.com Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about Yesterday? -anon ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Ken Cornetet Sent: Fri 11/19/2004 6:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: Why no AD integrated DNS secondary zones? OK, integrated stub zones are cool, but I'm curious - why did MS stop there? Why no integrated secondaries? List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
