win2k's dns

[Cricket Liu]

Farid Hamjavar <hamjavar at unm.edu> wrote in message
news:<Pine.A41.4.10.9908301633470.27272-100000 at pegasus.unm.edu>...
> I may be reading this incorrectly, but my
> understanding is that this will have a big
> impact on the way dns is done on internet.
>
> If dns domain means NT-domain under win2k

It doesn't.

> and win2k's active directory can be used without dns ...

It can't.

> What are some of your thoughts on this?
> I am just technically curious about this.

I read that article, too, after seeing a pointer to it on Slashdot.  It
contains some important inaccuracies, in particular the implication that
BIND doesn't support dynamic update (it does, and has since BIND 8.1).  The
author of the article pretty clearly didn't do his homework.

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