Bind 4.9.5 on NT vs MS DNS

[Hugh Davies]

In article <7v1imf$548$1 at minus.oleane.net>, "Patrick MATHEVON" <patrick.mathevon at fra.fr> writes:
>I'm planning to change the two machine with the DNS (primary and secondary)
>in my business. It's a Bind 4.9.5 running Windows NT 4 Server.
>Do you think I should keep (or upgrade) Bind or going to NT built-in DNS (I
>don't speak about Win 2000 DNS but NT 4 DNS, I want to wait and see before
>using Win 2000 for critical use)? I have something like 70 domains on this
>DNS.

I'd stay with BIND. There are interoperability problems with MS-DNS due
to non-RFC compliance, and I've heard about some scary bugs...

>I'm also planning to put a cache-only DNS in my Lan. Can Bind do it

Yes.

Regards,

Hugh.
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