I need Arguments: Bind 9 vs. MS DNS (Win2000)

[Barry Finkel]

"Stefan Kaifer" <stefan.kaifer at hartmann-online.de> wrote:

>>Hello,
>>
>>our company will migrate NT4 to Win2000. Now we have to decide which DNS we
>>should use:
>>
>>MS DNS or Bind 9
>>
>>So far we use Bind 8.3.x (Linux). It works very, very good. We have to
>>provide DNS/DHCP,etc for about 10.000 clients world-wide.
>>
>>Please post me arguments for and against MS DNS or Bind. Please post me also
>>any experiences, that you made with Win2000 clients + DNS.

Kevin Darcy <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> replied:

>In our case, we're using MS-DNS for two zones of our Active Directory DNS
>hierarchy, and BIND for one zone. Note that this is just for the SRV records
>that the Domain Controllers write, however. We don't implement client
>registration. So this probably makes our Win2K implementation rather atypical.

If you search the list archives you will see many postings concerning
the interaction of W2k and BIND since mid-1999.

We have basically the same DNS setup as Kevin.  The only zones I have
on my W2k DNS box are 24 "_" zones and five other zones.  These five are
one forward zone and four reverse zones for one subdomain of anl.gov
where the administrator wanted all his forward and reverse registrations
to be handled by a MS W2k DHCP server.  There are problems in these
zones, probably related to the DHCP server.  We have not had time to
pursue these errors to determine the exact cause(s).
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