[BlueOnyx:13905] Re: Help with DNS

[Will Nordmeyer, WnA Consulting Services]

On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 09:58:37 -0500, Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet
<cobaltfacts at virtbiz.com> wrote:
> We have a customer utilizing several BlueOnyx servers, but their DNS is 
> currently all handled on a Windows server on a network that has proven 
> to be less than reliable.   Therefore, the customer would like to 
> migrate their DNS to the BlueOnyx servers.
> 
> The customer has over 1000 domains.    Obviously, one way to handle this 
> would be to set a BX box as Secondary and slave the zone.   However, I'm 
> not sure how you could then "promote" the zone within BlueOnyx to be 
> primary (remember, the goal is to get rid of that Windows box).
> 
> Alternatively, I wonder about a script that might run through the 
> Windows DNS files and import them.   dnsImport.pl might work for that, 
> although I'll need to see about importing from the Windows records.  It 
> has been ages since I've subjected myself to Windows DNS so I'll need to 
> refresh myself on what those look like vs. BIND.
> 
> I thought I would post in case anyone has done this before and I don't 
> need to reinvent the wheel.

I have a WinDoze box and can export my DNS zones to a txt file.  The
files are also listed as DNS files in c:\windows\system32\dns (on a
windows 2008 R2 64 bit server).  Here's the format.  Contact me offlist
and I can email you the actual formatted file in case the format doesn't
hold true.

;
;  Database file mydomain.local.dns for mydomain.local zone.
;      Zone version:  150
;

@                       IN  SOA server2.mydomain.local. hostmaster. (
                        		150          ; serial number
                        		900          ; refresh
                        		600          ; retry
                        		86400        ; expire
                        		3600       ) ; default TTL

;
;  Zone NS records
;

@                       NS	server1.mydomain.local.
@                       NS	server2.mydomain.local.

;
;  Zone records
;

@                       600	A	192.168.0.1
@                       600	A	192.168.0.2

;
;  Delegated sub-zone:  _msdcs.mydomain.local.
;
_msdcs                  NS	server2.mydomain.local.
;  End delegation

_gc._tcp.Default-First-Site-Name._sites 600	SRV	0 100
3268	server1.mydomain.local.
                        600	SRV	0 100 3268	server2.mydomain.local.
_kerberos._tcp.Default-First-Site-Name._sites 600	SRV	0 100
88	server1.mydomain.local.
                        600	SRV	0 100 88	server2.mydomain.local.
_ldap._tcp.Default-First-Site-Name._sites 600	SRV	0 100
389	server2.mydomain.local.
                        600	SRV	0 100 389	server1.mydomain.local.
_gc._tcp                600	SRV	0 100 3268	server1.mydomain.local.
                        600	SRV	0 100 3268	server2.mydomain.local.
_kerberos._tcp          600	SRV	0 100 88	server1.mydomain.local.
                        600	SRV	0 100 88	server2.mydomain.local.
_kpasswd._tcp           600	SRV	0 100 464	server1.mydomain.local.
                        600	SRV	0 100 464	server2.mydomain.local.
_ldap._tcp              600	SRV	0 100 389	server1.mydomain.local.
                        600	SRV	0 100 389	server2.mydomain.local.
_kerberos._udp          600	SRV	0 100 88	server1.mydomain.local.
                        600	SRV	0 100 88	server2.mydomain.local.
_kpasswd._udp           600	SRV	0 100 464	server1.mydomain.local.
                        600	SRV	0 100 464	server2.mydomain.local.
server2              A	192.168.0.1
companyweb              CNAME	server2.mydomain.local.
DomainDnsZones          600	A	192.168.0.2
                        600	A	192.168.0.1
_ldap._tcp.Default-First-Site-Name._sites.DomainDnsZones 600	SRV	0 100
389	server1.mydomain.local.
                        600	SRV	0 100 389	server2.mydomain.local.
_ldap._tcp.DomainDnsZones 600	SRV	0 100 389	server1.mydomain.local.
                        600	SRV	0 100 389	server2.mydomain.local.
ForestDnsZones          600	A	192.168.0.2
                        600	A	192.168.0.1
_ldap._tcp.Default-First-Site-Name._sites.ForestDnsZones 600	SRV	0 100
389	server1.mydomain.local.
                        600	SRV	0 100 389	server2.mydomain.local.
_ldap._tcp.ForestDnsZones 600	SRV	0 100 389	server1.mydomain.local.
                        600	SRV	0 100 389	server2.mydomain.local.
server1               A	192.168.0.2
NAS1                     1200	A	192.168.0.240
lap2                    1200	A	192.168.0.101
lap1                  1200	A	192.168.0.108