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Gil
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 | | 02/01/2012 7:08 PM |
| “Best” depends on your requirements. “Easiest and cheapest” is probably accurate.
-gil
From: activedir-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:activedir-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gabriele Scolaro
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 9:47 AM
To: activedir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Infoblox for AD DNS - thoughts, opinions, experiences
…so ADI DNS seems to be yet the best option to provide DNS failover to ensure a locally hosted DC would continue to provide “AD service” to local users/computers in the event of a WAN outage, right? – Gabriele.
From: activedir-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:activedir-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [mailto:activedir-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]<mailto:[mailto:activedir-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]> On Behalf Of Mark Parris
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 8:14 AM
To: activedir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:activedir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Infoblox for AD DNS - thoughts, opinions, experiences
From experience it works great if you have an appliance in every location or branch, if they have not invested in the offices and only the data centres then you'll need to ensure that in the event of a comms failure DNS can still function.
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On 5 Dec 2011, at 01:58, "mreilly07@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:mreilly07@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>" <mreilly07@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:mreilly07@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Curious to hear some discussion about Infoblox devices (or DNS/DHCP appliances for that matter) for handling DNS. Just started a new job where these appliances are being used for all DHCP and DNS management. To the point where even the DCs themselves do not host AD integrated DNS, and they point to the Infoblox devices. Granted this is a heavy Novell environment, and AD is not being used for much more than just authentication, but I digress...
My experiences of managing AD (even in environments with 500+ domain controllers) have proven that Microsoft hosted AD integrated DNS works beautifully and best of all, it's free! My thoughts are Windows clients, whether DNS servers, member servers, or client machines, do a great job of trying to ensure they can register their own records properly, and if you allow them to do so, things generally work well.
Thoughts, comments, experienced much appreciated.
Does anyone find value in these type of devices? Looking at the documentation on their website, much of it seems outdated. Perhaps these had their place and time several years ago, before MS DNS was arguably widely accepted?
Thanks,
Matt Reilly
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