Why I Don't Trust the MS Win2k Code

[Barry Finkel]

This is an example (from among a number I have) why I do not trust the
MS Win2k DNS code.

We have 11 zones on our production Win2k DNS box; eight are the
MS "_" zones.  The other two are one forward zone and two reverse
zones.  We had the first case yesterday afternoon where my two BIND
slaves reported a serial number problem when trying to transfer
seven of the zones.  (Four had no problems.)  The serial numbers were

     Zone  MS W2k DNS     BIND
     -----  --------- -----------
     1      2001030605 2001030606
     _2             23         24
     _3            671        683
     _4             43         44
     _5             84        497
     _6             89        505
     _7             23         24

The first zone is a zone that I moved yesterday from a BIND master to
the MS Win2k DNS master because that zone will need to have DDNS from
Win2k boxes and DHCP servers.  That is why it has a "traditional"
serial number.  The other zones are all "_" zones, and I defined them
initially on the MS Win2k DNS, so they have serials that started at 1.

I know that this phenomenon has been reported before on this discussion
group.  I will open a trouble ticket with MS today.
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Barry S. Finkel
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