Windows 2003 Dynamic DNS vs Bind

[F. Even]

Kurt Boyack wrote:
> On 10/6/05, Chris Hills <chaz at chaz6.com> wrote:
> 
>>Kurt Boyack wrote:
>>
>>>Yes. ISC's BIND and DHCP do an excellent job of this. We've been using
>>>them for about 3 years and have never had a problem.
>>
>>Presumably you have dhcpd take care of the dns records, rather than
>>hosts registering their own?
>>
> 
> 
> Yes. Hosts are not allowed to update DNS directly, but we do have BIND
> integrated with AD and allow the domain controllers to update their
> own records.
> 
> Note that Windows clients will try to update DNS anyway. I think that
> is the default behavior.

No....they will only do so if configured to.  2K is configured by 
default to update DNS...but there is a box in the network properties 
that can be unchecked.  I don't know if XP is configured by default to 
update DNS...but again...it's a check in the network properties.