Hello,
we have currently a Novell DNS that hosts about 20 zones and a Windows
DNS that hosts 3 zones. Our DHCP-server is also running on the Novell
server.

Our goal is now to eliminate the Novell DNS/DHCP and to use only the
Windows DNS/DHCP in the future.
My idea was to configure the Windows DNS as a secondary DNS for the
Novell DNS and to do the zone transfer by this way(I am not a Novell
specialist so I don't know if it is possible ona Novell DNS server).
Once the zone transfer done, I would use a group policy to reconfigure
the clients to use the WIndows DNS as a primary DNS and in a first
time the Novell DNS as a secondary(in order to be able to test if the
Windows DNS works correctly and in order to maintain the Windows DNS
up to date with regular zone transfers until the DHCP is configured on
a Windows machine).
In a second step I will configure the Windows DHCP server with the
same zones than the Novell DHCP(but putting the adress leases into the
Windows DNS) and switch from the Novell DNS to the Windows once
outside working ours to be sure that all the clients use the same
DHCP.

Is that a possible scenario? Will Novell be able to do its zone
transfer to the Windows server. In theorie, they are both Bind-
compatible, but is this really the case?

What are the limitations of the solutions and what are the points to
really take care of and potential problems?

Anyone already did such a migration?

Thanx in advance

Best regards

Claude

Hi,
first you should tell which kind of windows server you use w2k / w2k3?
-w2k3 has some group policies for dns config.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/294785/de

second you should tell if you have active directory running
-so, that can group policies can be applied central ?

third you should tell what the novel zones host :
some clients to migrate or just entries for websites/server

if you have windows domain zone, the clients might reside there in
-so what are you migrating ?


my goal would be :
make up a windows dhcp to work like the old one (pointing and registering to
the novell)
-same options ...registering ...

then set up the dns on windows

jk