I guarantee you that MS's GUI for DNS in NT4 and
W2K sucks seriously. Get the cricket book, forget MS DNS, and do it in
BIND8, like a grown-up. Don't let MS dumb you down and trip you up with
their sucky DNS GUI.
I'll dig you up a msg I put in here a couple of
weeks ago that show's you how to clone-a-zone easily with BIND8's $INCLUDE
directive when you add a new IIS/Imail customer. Gotta get you young'uns off
on the right foot.
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It is the ignorance of
a product and then giving bad advice about it that really scares me.
When someone is not sure they should not speak. I will give you that
NT4 did a bad job of DNS but they never meant it to be Primary and Secondary
DNS Servers and was basically for Internal use only.
But.. Windows
2000 is a whole different ball game. Not only is it BIND 8 compliant
but goes beyond with new RFC's that will end up in BIND. Most BIND
servers are not updated to the latest version as an example - Berkeley Internet Name Domain - BIND 8.1.1 DNS
Server implementation supports both SRV RRs and Dynamic Update, but it dumps
core when Windows 2000-based clients send certain updates to it. 8.1.2 is
the first BIND version that works reliably.
and download the white
paper and read it.
Us "young'uns"
understand that technology improves and changes on a daily basis, otherwise
we would still be on ARPAnet...
I know lots of Unix
Old-timers are afraid of the whole Dynamic DNS.. After all.. as
retirement approaches you won't have as much to do now. Time to get
off the bash Microsoft kick.. it is as old as
Elian..
And I guess I will go
do it in BIND8 like a grown up now.. oh yea.. I am.. Windows
2000...
The latest version of
the Windows 2000 operating system includes a new version of DNS. The RFCs
used in this version are 1034, 1035, 1886, 1996, 1995, 2136, 2308 and
2052.
RFC is the Request for Comments by the The Internet Engineering
Task Force http://www.ietf.org/ which is not owned or run by Microsoft..
it really is not a conspiracy!
Mark
Simons
MCSE
