A good reason to use Windows 2000 DNS?

[Eric A. Hall]

This doesn't have anything to do with BIND really, but:

> The only way that a Windows 2000 client can resolve a legacy clients
> IP address would be to:
> 
> - Run a Windows 2000 DNS server and use WINS integration.
> 
> or
> 
> - Statically configure legacy client's IP address in a non-w2k DNS
> server for Win2k clients to resolve.

Option 3 is to let the Win2k clients dynamically register with the
primary server for their domain (as provided in the SOA record), but to
point their DNS client (via DHCP) to another DNS server (NT4, W2K,
whatever can relay the requests to WINS if that's what you want to do).

Option 4 is to enable WINS on the W2K clients and pass them that data
via the DHCP configuration.

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Eric A. Hall                                            ehall at ehsco.com
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