Re: DDNS and allow-update declarations

2008-12-10 Thread Jonathan Petersson
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Mark Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nicholas F > Mille > r writes: > > I have a couple of questions regarding how a Microsoft domain > > controller updates a dynamic zone. > > > > 1 ) When a domain controller tries to update

Re: DDNS and allow-update declarations

2008-12-10 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nicholas F Mille r writes: > I have a couple of questions regarding how a Microsoft domain > controller updates a dynamic zone. > > 1 ) When a domain controller tries to update the zone does it try the > DNS servers it has listed in its network settings or does

Re: DDNS and allow-update declarations

2008-12-10 Thread Nicholas F Miller
Barry & Jonathan, Thanks for the quick replies. your responses go along with my findings as well. I am trying to clean up some of our configs. The DDNS zones just didn't look right to me and I wanted to confirm what I was thinking. Jonathan, I tested things on a test DC by pointing it at

Re: DDNS and allow-update declarations

2008-12-10 Thread bsfinkel
Nicholas F Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have a couple of questions regarding how a Microsoft domain >controller updates a dynamic zone. > >1 ) When a domain controller tries to update the zone does it try the >DNS servers it has listed in its network settings or does it follow >the S

Re: DDNS and allow-update declarations

2008-12-10 Thread Jonathan Petersson
I did some testing with this couple a months ago and it seams like AD is following the NS directive in the SOA. The design I used in my test-case was to put AD as an authoritative updater of the specified zone on my master, once updated the BIND master was responsible for updating the slaves. Som

DDNS and allow-update declarations

2008-12-10 Thread Nicholas F Miller
I have a couple of questions regarding how a Microsoft domain controller updates a dynamic zone. 1 ) When a domain controller tries to update the zone does it try the DNS servers it has listed in its network settings or does it follow the SOA for the zone? 2) In the configs below does the