delegating a subdomain in Windows (NS Records)

Barry Margolin barry.margolin at level3.com
Mon Nov 3 18:27:45 UTC 2003


In article <bo66en$21uo$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
Walt Howard <howard at rumba.ee.ualberta.ca> wrote:
>On WinServer2003, the Windows DNS server keeps its zonefile info in
>C:\windows\system32\config\netlogon.dns
>which is a text file in RFC 1035 format.  It can be edited with
>Notepad.  I expect (but do not have a way to check) that the other
>versions of WinNT5 use a similar location and filename.

While you *can* edit it with a text editor, I don't think this is highly
recommended.  Once you edit it manually, I think you may lose the ability
to configure DNS through the GUI.  Shops that use Windows probably prefer
doing most of their work through the GUIs.

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Barry Margolin, barry.margolin at level3.com
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