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I wouldn't do it right now.

There is a known incompatibility between 2003 DNS and BIND in certain
recursive situations in zones with large-numbers of records that "may"
be improperly configured.

The typical test-case is "bestbuy.com". It is configured in such a way
that BIND regards as legal, Windows 2000 DNS regards as legal, but
Windows 2003 does not regard as legal -- and strictly speaking, per RFC,
it may not be legal.

So, if you are using root-hints on a Windows 2003 server, you may not be
able to resolve bestbuy.com. If you forward to tinydns or BIND, you'll
get a response from them.

There is a long thread on this in the Microsoft newsgroups between a DNS
MVP and a Microsoft guy. You can hunt it down at groups.google.com, if
you want.

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Subject: [Modus] OT: DNS Servers

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Do any of you have any experience setting up a Windows 2003 DNS Server
as an ISP based solution?  We have some old DNS servers we need to
upgrade and we are going to use 2003 DNS and I would like to know what
pitfalls to watch out for.  

Jerod Powell
Magpie Internet Communications, Corp.
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phone: 408.341.8770
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