Integrating Primary/Secondary DNS servers into AD/DS

Question

Hello

In a company we have two internal DNS servers, those servers are non AD integrated, Primary/Secondary servers which stores its DNS Data in text file, briefly it's a standard DNS servers.

As we all know everyone who is not joined to a Domain can make DNS records, thus we want to use AD integrated DNS servers and always use Secure Dynamic Updates.

I've been tasked to do this integration....but in a company some people are persisting that it's possible to integrate those DNS servers in AD in such way that not installing a DNS service in AD/DC....as i guess they are thinking to keep old DNS servers and somehow send all DNS records from those servers remotely to AD/DC Application Database....i could not understand how this can be done? because all sources from where i have read about integrating DNS into AD, means installing a DNS service on AD/DC and then pulling all the zones from Primary/Secondary DNS servers and thus making AD/DC integrated zone a Primary one.....

so am i missing anything? what are prerequisites integrating DNS server records into existing AD?

Answer 1

Hi @Sandro Buturishvili •

I confirm that you are right.

If you want use integrated DNS zone , you need to install the DNS service and create DNS zone on domain controllers.

Below you can get more details :

Active Directory-Integrated DNS Zones

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