Re: Case For Microsoft DNS v. BIND 9 - Or Best Practices For Coexisting

2009-02-08 Thread Mark Andrews
> One example in closing for ya, go try and get an RFC complient Bind server > to respond to a request for name resoloution on a host that has an _ > (underscore) in the name, MS allows this, and a zone transfer of this kinda > stuff between and MS Server and a Bind server, can give you MUCH g

Re: Case For Microsoft DNS v. BIND 9 - Or Best Practices For Coexisting

2009-02-08 Thread steve
Microsoft DNS can work well, HOWEVER much time needs to be spent understanding its operations. This is a VERY long winded post, so I hope no one gets upset, I realize this is not the MS DNS group LOL I am going to assume, that you are running an Active Directory Domain that includes thes

RE: Case For Microsoft DNS v. BIND 9 - Or Best Practices For Coexisting

2009-02-08 Thread Vinny Abello
> -Original Message- > From: bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org [mailto:bind-users- > boun...@lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Danny Mayer > Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 2:29 PM > To: wiskbr...@hotmail.com > Cc: bind-users@lists.isc.org > Subject: Re: Case For Microso

Re: Case For Microsoft DNS v. BIND 9 - Or Best Practices For Coexisting

2009-02-07 Thread Danny Mayer
wiskbr...@hotmail.com wrote: > The case the windows team made was ease of adding entries, you simply > add into the MMC, or even easier, when you join a host into a domain, it > adds itself. > This is not even true. To add a host to a domain you have to register it manually, either by going into

RE: Case For Microsoft DNS v. BIND 9 - Or Best Practices For Coexisting

2009-02-06 Thread wiskbroom
abases, AD *and* DNS. With MS DNS, they say, this is not the case whereby when you add an entry or join a host, that entry is automatically added in DNS. In there a way to do this in BIND? Thanks again, .vp ---- > Subject: RE: Case For Microsoft

RE: Case For Microsoft DNS v. BIND 9 - Or Best Practices For Coexisting

2009-02-06 Thread Jeff Lightner
I don't see why it is either/or. Here we have Windoze DNS servers for internal lookups and Linux/BIND 9 DNS servers for external lookups. The internal servers refer all queries they aren't authoritative for to the external ones which in turn refer all queries for domains we don't own to the root