The Latest on DNS Servers

[Yang Xiao]

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 23:04:16 +0200, Alexander Dalloz
<alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:
> Am Fr, den 22.10.2004 schrieb Roy W. Erickson um 22:47:
> 
> > Thanks for the info.  How about if we choose to install a W2k server, is
> > the current bind capable of working with the Directory Server?
> 
> What Microsoft implemented as dynamic DNS within the whole AD setup is
> not compatible to anything (even the used kerberos is not standard
> conform). You can combine bind and the DNS on a Win2k Server if you
> don't rely on the AD capabilities.
> 
> > Is there a way to get DHCP to feed it's assignments to the DNS server?
> 
> Yes, sure. There is documentation about that. Dag Wieers for instance
> did wrote a howto: http://dag.wieers.com/howto/bits/bind-ddns.php
> Maybe look complicated at first sight, but isn't.
> 
> > Roy
> 
> Alexander

Well, I wish I'm not saying this just for the reason this is a FC2
list, but MS DNS server integrated with Active Directory does provide
a "Multi-Master" environment instead of the traditional Master/Salve
setup. and if integrated with MS DHCP server, it also allows automatic
DNS updates of the client records as well. And it's very easy to
setup.(minus the AD part that is). With that said, I wouldn't go as
far as to host any public DNS zones on the Internet with it, I'm just
not comfortable with MS boxes talking to the internet directly in any
way. But for internal DNS zones...sure, it's easier to manage for most
people than to run FC with BIND.

Yang