[Maintain] Active Directory, non-Master Domains, and SOA's for Fun and Profit

[Leslie S Arvin]

I'd recommend you save a back-up of your maintain database before
trying this.

So you seem to be saying domain "labs.millersville.edu" is a subdomain
that contains only A records.

Maybe this is an evil suggestion, but I'd be tempted to manually change
the entry in the maintain database:

"UPDATE domain set master_domain=0 where name='labs.millersville.edu';"

This will change 'labs.millersville.edu' to a master doamin and allow you
to edit the SOA for 'labs.millersville.edu' without moving any hosts or
risking deleting any records.

-- Leslie Arvin
    arvin at purdue.edu, Office: MATH B60-D, Phone: 765-49-63971
    Systems Administrator, ITI-Networks
    Purdue University, Information Technology at Purdue


Ryan Dorman wrote:
> Hi guys-
> 
>     I asked this in the chat room but there didn't seem to be anyone  
> around.. so i'll post it here and see if anyone has an insight...
> 
>     We are using maintain for A records and trying to integrate  Active 
> Directory into the mix.  I have hard-coded delegations for the  Active 
> Directory SRV zones in the tinydns configs so that the dynamic  stuff 
> that MS needs goes to the domain controllers but the A records  stay in 
> Bind/Maintain.
> Its all groovy for our top level domain millersville.edu.  It does  NOT 
> work for a subdomain we are tryign to setup as  labs.millersville.edu.  
> The data seems to make it to our BIND 9  client-facing server but if i 
> do a "dig _tcp.labs.millersville.edu"  for example I get a SERVFAIL.   
> The only difference between the top  level and labs is that  i set up 
> labs.millersville.edu as a domain  rather then a master domain with a 
> SOA.  This is not Maintain's  fault, I realize we are doing some funky 
> business here. So... I need  to temporarily migrate all the hosts in 
> labs.millersville.edu (about  1,200) into something else so i can delete 
> labs.millersville.edu in  Maintain and recreate it as a master domain.  
> The button you click on  to do that says 'Dangerous" next to it  (in the 
> Batch/Bulk Host  Update Screen).  I was wondering if you coudl shed some 
> light on  that, or offer a different/better suggestion, I'd rather not 
> hose all  of the data entry we've done.
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Ryan Dorman, CCNA
> Network Communications Specialist
> Millersville University
> 717.871.5883
> Ryan.Dorman at millersville.edu
> 
> 
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