Running BIND on NT

John Navas jnavas at aimnet.com
Wed Jun 16 16:54:49 UTC 1999


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Can you tell me how to run "split brain" DNS (same name resolving to an
external address for external queries and an internal address for internal
queries)?  Thanks!

Castro Henry <castroh at lewis.army.mil> wrote:

>Chuck,
>
>I am running 4.9.7 on an NT with SP4 as my primary server.  I have had no
>problems at all.   I got the pre-complied version as I didn't feel I needed
>to re-invent the wheel.  I also installed PERL at the same time, because I
>use the "H2N" utility to build my files.  I don't use any of the gui-based
>utilities that come along with it.  I instead use the NT Services to stop
>and start DNS.  I do remember having a small problem with the way the SOA
>header was formatted, but that was just a bump in the road to success.
>
>At the moment I cannot remember any major problem, but in case you run up
>against one, feel free to contact me and I'll see if we can work our way
>through it.
>
>Henry Castro
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:	Chuck Melanson [SMTP:chuck at scholars.com]
>> Sent:	Thursday, April 15, 1999 12:38 PM
>> To:	bind-users at isc.org
>> Subject:	Running BIND on NT
>> 
>> Does anyone have any experience with running BIND on NT Server that they 
>> would like to share? 
>> 
>> My environment dictates that I must find an NT DNS solution, but I would 
>> personally like to avoid the Microsoft DNS if at all possible. If anyone 
>> has any advice/tips from install to production functionality that they 
>> could share with me, it would be much appreciated.
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> Chuck Melanson, MCSE, CCNA
>> Network Engineer
>> http://www.scholars.com
>> chuck at scholars.com

-- 
Best regards,
John  mailto:jnavas at aimnet.com  http://www.aimnet.com/~jnavas/



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