Brian wrote:
>IMHO - Definitely not. You can use wins for name resolution on your
>network. You don't need the additional administration headaches, and MS DNS
>is not that good compared to the Unix Bind that your ISP is undoubtedly
>using. So unless you want to install a Unix server, I would leave it as is.
I have run DNS on UNIX, Linux, Bind on NT and Now I run three DNS servers
on MS NT DNS. It is rock solid and very easy to administer. If you can
administer IMail you can administer NT DNS..... they look exactly the same.
Perhaps your MS DNS experience, if you actually have any, was from a much
earlier version that was actually quite feeble. MS totally rewrote the
program (it is not just a port of BIND) and now it is quite stable. Also,
Windows2000 is moving from Wins to the DNS model. Any experience you now
gain will help you as you migrate to W2K.
Bottom line, you definitely do not need a UNIX server for a network of your
size. Unfortunately that kind of misinformation is easy to find.
Walt
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