[cumbria_lug] Dynamic Updates in BIND 9 Serving XP and 2003 Server

[Trevor Pearson]

Malcolm Logan wrote:

>Hello All,
>
>I'm desperate :(
>
>I've just set up BIND 9 on fedora to serve our XP/2003 network as we are
>having several replication issues and want to ditch the seemingly flaky
>2003 DNS services.
>
>Anyway, I've followed Cricket Liu's recipe in the DNS and Bind Cookbook
>and BIND starts fine. I can do the usual queries etc from an XP client
>but only for static entries to the zone files. I have acl's defined in
>the named.conf file and have added these to the zones I want to be able
>to update.
>
>Restarted the named server and pointed an XP client at it then restarted
>the client. I can see no evidence of any dynamic updates happening. Cant
>'nslookup client_host_name' from the client, cant see any '.jnl' files
>appearing on the DNS server (these are the files that hold the dynamic
>updates).
>
>The ultimate AIM is to switch off winDNS and use BIND. I desperately
>need the dynamic bit to work though as the Domain Controllers use
>dynamic DNS to 'announce' the services they are hosting.
>
>I wanted to set this up over the holiday period so it was ready when
>everyone arrives back at work... boohoo.
>
>Has anybody successfully implemented a BIND 9 server providing DNS for a
>win XP/Server 2003 domain? If so could you get in touch - I'd really
>appreciate some input from someone who already has this working.
>
>Malcolm
>
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Malcolm,

I don't have enough time this week to figure out what problem your 
having but I guess there are one or two places you might look firstly 
there is the Linux Documentation Project Network Admin Guide at ----

http://www.tldp.org/LDP/nag2/index.html
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/nag2/x-087-2-resolv.html

Also It might be a conflict between your setup and recent changes to the 
Fedora distro (3 + 4) some difficulties with system deamons are due to 
having 'SELinux' running in 'Secure policy' mode try looking under 
'System Settings' 'security level' and if SELinux is enabled check that 
you are using 'targeted' and not 'secure' policy then there is a 'Name 
Service' section try ticking the 'allow' boxes as the default is to 
not-allow such things as writing to the Master Zone file (It uses the 
term 'overwrite' which could well be the cause of your trouble.. If your 
still having trouble try turning SELinux off.

Do let us know if any of this is helpful or if you have tried any of 
these things

Trev

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