On Sunday 22 August 2010 01:35 AM, Leen Besselink wrote:
On 08/21/2010 08:30 PM, Vishal Uderani wrote:
Hey ,
Hi Vishal,
Ive managed to get a standalone installation of pdns Authoritative
server up and running with a mysql backend and poweradmin interface
. However , i havent found a single mention of a pdns installation
integrating with a Windows DNS Server . Let me elaborate further :
We have a bunch of devs who would like to create/modify/delete
records and zones in our internal DNS server (Active Directory
Integrated) without them having to access the server itself . so
giving them an interface that does the above made sense . My pdns
installation is on Linux . I came across the pdns-ldap backend but
thats somehow not worked out for me . After compiling with
--with-modules="ldap" and making sure my pdns.conf pointed to the
correct basedn , i was unable to pull down any of the zones from my
Win DNS to my db . (assuming thats what it does) I would really
appreciate it if anyone could provide me any info or send me along
the correct track here . Awaiting your prompt response .
No, that is not what it does.
The LDAP-backend does, like the MySQL-backend, does not copy anything
(unless it's a slave-server, in which case powerdns copies data), is a
database where zones exist which are queried when a client asks for a
record.
Thanks for the quick reply . Right . so once i compile using the ldap
backend , i should be able to query my windows dns server and in turn
poweradmin must display my zones
I don't know if you can use these 2 backends at the same time.
Hmm . well thats not what i intend to do either . I was wondering if
pdns could directly query my windows DNS server and pull down queries or
does it need a mysql backend as mandatory (looks like it dosent) .
Normally the easiest way to deal with seperate (authoritive)
nameservers is to use seperate zones. So one nameserver has a zone:
company.tld and an other nameserver has a sub-zone: other.company.tld
You setup the company.tld to point other.company.tld to the other
nameserver(s) by creating a NS-record with the IP-address of the other
nameserver.
That way a 'resolving nameserver' will know it should query an other
authoritive nameserver for the other zone and there is no need to copy
anything.
Im gonna give the ldap-backend another go at it and check if there is
something to be done with my configuration
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Regards ,
Vishal Uderani
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