Newbie to DNS

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Tue Apr 24 21:08:30 UTC 2001


Huh? That advice seems somewhat self-contradictory, i.e. use Windows DNS but don't expect
anyone on the list to help you with it...


- Kevin

mark Mullai wrote:

>  Unless You have a very good reason or know unix USE Windows DNS. Win 2000 is preferable.
>
> NO ONE knows windows here.
>
> GoodLuck
>
>   IW <idwest at nospam.hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can I do this with an internal DNS?
>
> At the moment I have host files which map ip addresses to names (ie the mail
> server is 172.28.0.6 MAILSERVER)
>
> This as you can imagine is a nightmare to manage. I have been told that I
> can setup a dns server and just change the network properties to have a
> primary dns and any management changes I can do on the server and all
> clients will see them without me going to each machine and making an
> adjustment.
>
> I have also been informed that I should use BIND not the Windows NT DNS
> Services, but all I can find at the moment is information and sample
> configuration files for UNIX.
>
> Can anybody point me in the right direction where I can obtain this
> information?
>
> TIA.
>
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