Delegating Zone in Windows DNS to BIND Server

[jjk3]

I'm trying to put a plan together for my current company to clean up our DNS (It's a real mess). We have both Windows and BIND DNS servers.

The ultimate plan is to have the Windows DNS servers server the parent zone (company.com) and the BIND DNS servers server a child zone (eng.company.com).

I have never used Windows DNS and I see from a MS KB article how to delegate a zone in Windows DNS, but it only mentions a Windows DNS child server.

Is there anything preventing the child server to be a BIND server?

Thanks

Joe

 

[GlenJohnson]

Depends. There is no such thing as a child dns server in w2k, only dc's and stand alone servers. Secondaries went out with NT 4.0. Is your windows dns server nt or w2k?

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[jjk3]

I understand that Windows 2000 DNS has no concept of Master/Slave, but I am pretty certain that you can slave a BIND DNS server to a Windows 2000 DNS server.

In any case, my question is about delegated zones, which is a parent/child relationship, as opposed to a "secondary" DNS server, which is a master/slave relationship.

Thanks,

Joe