On 16 Aug 2007 09:44:03 -0700, Kevin Klein wrote:
>Our most recent disaster test proved to be a (drum roll) disaster.
>Fortunately for me if not for my company, since I'm on z/OS, 95% of our
>problems were with the Wintel platforms. We had z/OS (1.7) up in two hours
>but spent the remainder of the test ironing out server restores. One item
>that has arisen because of this is questioning if we need to keep our DNS on a
>Windows server. We had everything restored and ready to go on z/OS by noon
>but had to wait another 6-8 hours for a DNS before we could test WAS.
>Specifically:
>
>* Does z/OS have any DNS services? If we could get a DNS going with z/OS
>we'd have a definite ETA on when it's available.
>* If so, is it recommended to run your DNS on z/OS?
>* Again, if so, does anyone have any experiences/recommendations they'd
>care to share?
Yes!
We've been running the z/OS Bind 9.x DNS server as our primary name
server for several years now. It works quite nicely, and doesn't seem
to be operationally much different from running Bind on any other
platform. About the only time we need to touch the name server is when
we need to update the zone databases.
(For backup we run a secondary name server on an AIX box in a remote
office.)
Eric
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