Win2k Migration Questions

Jeff Newton Jeff_Newton at pmc-sierra.com
Tue Jan 16 20:36:09 UTC 2001



We use a Bind infrastructure for DNS currently but I have a number of
questions/concerns related to a migration from NT to Win2k.  I am
hoping for some advice from those who have been down this path before.

We currently have an NT domain name with an underscore in the name
(eg. NT_Net).  We are now looking at how to deal with this underscore
issue with the migration to Win2k.  I am also not comfortable with
Win2k/Bind interaction with respect to DDNS.

I was thinking of the following deployment strategy:

Let Win2k ADS resolve for NT_Net.corp.com and continue to use Bind for
corp.com.  PCs got to ADS for DNS and unix machines go to a Bind DNS
server to resolve names/IPs.

One issue would be PC's resolving unix machine names and vice versa.
Would it be best to make ADS a secondary for corp.com and Bind a 
secondary for NT_Net.corp.com?  

Does this deployment sound reasonable?  Any suggestions for someone
running a strictly Bind infrastructure tasked with deploying Win2k?

Cheers,

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Jeff Newton





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