[Pdns-users] pdns and Windows DNS integration

[Leen Besselink]

On 09/03/2010 07:38 PM, Mathew Hennessy wrote:
> On Aug 22, 2010, at 9:22, Leen Besselink wrote:
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>> On 08/22/2010 07:01 AM, vishal.ud wrote:
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>>> On Sunday 22 August 2010 01:35 AM, Leen Besselink wrote:
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>>>> On 08/21/2010 08:30 PM, Vishal Uderani wrote:
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>>>>> Hey ,
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>>>> Hi Vishal,
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>>>>> Ive managed to get a standalone installation of pdns Authoritative server  up and running with a mysql backend and poweradmin interface .  However , i havent found a single mention of a pdns installation integrating with a Windows DNS Server . Let me elaborate further :
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>>>>> We have a bunch of devs who would like to create/modify/delete records and zones in our internal DNS server (Active Directory Integrated) without them having to access the server itself .  so giving them an interface that does the above made sense . My pdns installation is on Linux . I came across the pdns-ldap backend but thats somehow not worked out for me . After compiling with --with-modules="ldap" and making sure my pdns.conf pointed to the correct basedn , i was unable to pull down any of the zones from my Win DNS to my db . (assuming thats what it does)  I would really appreciate it if anyone could provide me any info or send me along the correct track here . Awaiting your prompt response .
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>>>> No, that is not what it does.
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>>>> The LDAP-backend does, like the MySQL-backend, does not copy anything (unless it's a slave-server, in which case powerdns copies data), is a database where zones exist which are queried when a client asks for a record.
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>>> Thanks for the quick reply . Right . so once i compile using the ldap backend , i should be able to query my windows dns server and in turn poweradmin must display my zones
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>> poweradmin just works with on the (SQL) database directly and only works with mysql and postgresql.
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> I've been hacking rather heavily on a copy of poweradmin (to handle multiple record 'zones', to log changes and provide one-click 'undo') and I have this issue myself.  I looked at WMI or wsmancli on Linux to speak to Windows, but I'm starting to think using dynamic updates against the windows AD server would be the easiest way to go.  PHP has a Net_DNS PEAR module (derived from the Net::DNS Perl mod) that has update functionality, and I'm looking to test it out next week with a dummy windows DNS server..
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Very creative, I hope the AD supports it.

I know it supports some protocols, but I don't know which from the top
of my head.