It's difficult to manage AD DNS and Infoblox and since AD DNS is 99% Microsoft focused and slow we would like to move it to the universally acceptable DNS on Infoblox so we have one place to manage DNS.

Has anyone done this and if so do you have some steps I could try?

I was able to make it work by doing the following:

 

1. Configure DNS and Start the service: Go to Grid (1)-> Grid Manager (2) -> DNS (3) -> Edit Grid Properties (4)
2. Configure DNS to allow updates from AD Domain Controllers by putting the domain controller addresses into the set ACE of ACE’s. Go to Updates -> Advanced and click on the check box to allow secondary servers to forward updates and select success for the Updates to PTR records in bulk Dropdown.
   • ****** This is critical as Domain Controllers use the netlogon service to forward Active Directory DNS information to the InfoBlox appliance. Without this, IT WILL NOT WORK!!!! ******
3. Configure what subnets are allowed to query this DNS server for name resolution under Grid DNS Properties -> Queries (1): Configure your DNS server to accept zone transfers from the Domain Controllers: Click on save and close.
4. Enable the DNS Server by checking the InfoBlox appliance (1) and starting the DNS DAEMON (2).
5. Your InfoBlox appliance is now ready to do the following:    Accept Active Directory DNS updates from domain controllers through netlogon.
6. Created the an authoritative DNS zone the matches what my AD domain would be with the underscores automatically created.
7. Spun up a Windows Server 2012 VM and added the AD Services.
8. In the network connection properties, I pointed the Windows VM to point to the InfoBlox appliaance to be the primary DNS server and the 127.0.0.1 to be secondary.
9. Created a new AD forest that matched the name of the authoritative zone I created in the infoblox appliance.
10. After the AD domain was created, netlogon took care of all of the SRV record population into infoblox. 

 

REFERENCE:

WhitePaper infoblox-white-paper-dns-microsoft-active-directory-environment.pdf