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