Our Corporate Overlords run DNS on a mixed environment of Windows and Other (mostly other). Back when we were still a small company, we moved our DNS from BIND to Windows for ease of administration. It CAN be done, but it's a huge PITA since AD does things in DNS that aren't standard (and in fact, violate it willfully and knowingly to make MS Kerberos bits happy). I had my Unix servers acting as secondary servers to serve their clients off the AD primary servers, and that worked just fine. Windows Server 2003 and later are extremely stable and we've had no issues with them taking over DNS duties (I've long since just pointed all my Unix boxes at the Windows servers for DNS since the Windows servers have been so stable and reliable).
Jamie -----Original Message----- From: Tom Mikelson [mailto:tmikel...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 10:05 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Active Directory requires Microsoft DNS? Presently our organization utilizes BIND for DNS services, with the Networking team administering. We are now being told by the Systems team that they will be responsible for DNS services and that it will be changed over to the Microsoft DNS service run on domain controllers. The reason given is that the Active Directory implementation requires the Microsoft DNS service and dynamic DNS. Not being a Microsoft administrator I do not know the veracity of these claims. Anyone out there had any experiences with a situation like this? I am a bit leery of changing something that is already working.