Integrating Active Directory and Linux DNS servers

[Rodolfo J. Paiz]

At 09:37 3/18/2004, you wrote:
>I'm a little rusty with my Microsoft stuff, but I believe that the real
>requirment you're looking for is a Dynamic DNS server. [...]
>I'm not a DNS guru and I would like to know what Linux/Unix based
>solutions offer this feature in a DNS server.

BIND 9 offers this capability in Fedora Core 1, and I think it was already 
available earlier, in Red Hat Linux 9. Of course, upgrading to a very 
recent version of BIND on any Linux OS ought to provide the same result.

Generally speaking, I've seen several people set up DHCP to offer dynamic 
IP addresses and then also dynamically update BIND so that DNS records 
match the hostnames and IP addresses assigned by DHCP. It definitely does 
work, although I have not yet managed to find the time to set that up for 
my home network.


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Rodolfo J. Paiz
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