Novell and Unix.

[Kevin Darcy]

Before everyone jumps on this poor guy about how insecure BIND 8.1.2 is,
remember that sometimes vendors come up with their own patches to fix security
holes in backlevel versions of BIND. The original poster should verify that
those patches (if they exist on HP) are installed before attempting to run any
nameserver based on BIND 8.1.2.

As for importing data from Novell; sorry I can't help you there. We run Novell
extensively here, but we've never used it for DNS...


- Kevin

Snezhkov, Dimitry wrote:

> Gurus,
>
> The time has come for our company to get bind v4.9.7 (HP-UX distribution)
> running on Unix  converted to 8.1.2 ( release supported by HP ). The problem
> is that they want primary DNS to
> be moved to Novell NDS tree to utilize DHCP and run DDNS from there. Unix
> box ( HP-UX 11.0 ) will become slave to Novell Bind and on Unix side I will
> need to accomodate
> for zone transfers back to my environment.
> Since I am not familiar w/Novell ,I was told that Novell DNS is all-GUI. How
> does Novell do zone transfer? What kind of animal is Novell Dns? Any
> different from unix?
> Can you dump the contents of Database in plain file? Any scripts need to be
> written to massage data from Novell to bind 8.1.2 on Unix? How do I request
> Zone transfer from Novell?
>
> I would appreciate all the ideas. Will summarize.
>
> Dimitry.