DNS Registrations from Solaris/QIP DHCP Servers

[Stephen Moore]

Hi there,

The environment I work in is moving forward with its
Active Directory implementation is small stages. Right
now, DHCP addressing is handled by QIP running on
Solaris. The DNS registrations are handled by QIP as
well, but now the time has come to test if AD will accept
these registrations itself. In short, the organization
wishes to keep QIP as its DHCP delegator, but wishes to
register the delegated IP addresses with AD DNS.

Is this feasible? It seems likely that it is, though I
don't think it's preferable. Any opinions?

Thanks,

Steve

 

[Herb Martin]

Hi there,

The environment I work in is moving forward with its
Active Directory implementation is small stages. Right
now, DHCP addressing is handled by QIP running on
Solaris. The DNS registrations are handled by QIP as
well, but now the time has come to test if AD will accept
these registrations itself. In short, the organization
wishes to keep QIP as its DHCP delegator, but wishes to
register the delegated IP addresses with AD DNS.

Is this feasible? It seems likely that it is, though I
don't think it's preferable. Any opinions?

Maybe, but you likely will use the ability to do "secure updates only"
which is a much safer practice.

Why work that hard -- since you have Win2000+ DHCP is essentially
free. Don't fight it; use Windows DHCP (and DNS.)