On Feb 27, 2012, at 12:16 AM, Andrew S. Zbikowski wrote: > Never create a .local domain in DNS, Active Directory, whatever. The > .local TLD is reserved for mDNS (Bonjour in the Apple world). If you > ever have to introduce Macs and other Apple products into your > enviorment you'll have so many fewer headaches if you don't use > .local, and it's the right thing to do. No ****. It's not my network. He claims he inherited the disaster but doesn't want to spend the time to fix it. > Anyway, it's been many years since I integrated BIND and Active > Directory, but it is doable. Your best bet is to keep things as simple > as possible thorugh. For example, have your local BIND server use the > AD DNS servers to resolve anything the BIND server doesn't know about. I gave up on it and just made everything that wasn't DHCP a static definition in ADDNS.