>>I'm concerned about the security of running AD updates across the public
>>Internet
>
>The multi-master zone AD replication with zone updates is done over
>GSS-TSIG, so it is secure.
>
>Len

Wow... impressive display of knowledge.  :)

>However, I'd prefer not to "roll my own" end-user GUI.  Although feasible,
>I suspect a lot more work with ASP/ADSI than we want to tackle right now.
>Are there any 3rd party GUI's of the sort described above for Win 2000 DNS?

I was just going to add that we opted for something relatively simple.  We
searched for a GUI for a web-based DNS admin thingy for W2K DNS.  All we
could
find were fairly expensive utility suites or open source C progs that we had
problems understanding.  We also played with ADSI for a while, and that got
really messy too. Maybe we are just sorry programmers, but that was a
painful
ordeal.

In the end, we found that Microsoft was a program called dnscmd.exe.  I
think
you can download it from www.microsoft.com or get it from the
W2K Server Reource Kit.  It's a command line utility that lets you
man-handle
your W2K DNS.  You can execute it from an ASP webpage using the WScript or
any other windows scripting object.  We had some minor problems at first
trying to figure out how the permission should be setup, but overall it was
the easiest (and cheapest) solution.

That's all I know.

-Norm



Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html 
to be removed from this list.

An Archive of this list is available at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/

Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked
questions:  http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/

Reply via email to