The bug reports and feedback MS garners from RC code does not actually make it into RTM code. Rather, that information is fed into the "service pack 1" product.
Practice what you preach there, pal. I've got no idea what you are talking about and neither do you it seems. NT4/2k stores the DNS data in a binary format, have fun admining that with edit.com.
MCP Magazine published a similar piece in the 9/99 issue. For various reasons, they claimed that NT's DNS as superior to Unix. However, the uneducated author of that piece was really contrasting BIND 4 and BIND 8. I sent MCPMag a nasty-gram for that. Linux has had a BIND 8 compliant DNS out for a couple of years already. Unfortunately, many of the major Unices don't have a BIND 8 DNS out. AIX 4.3 being one exception to that. IBM was fairly aggressive in keeping up with the latest RFCs governing DNS/DDNS and DHCP. The key difference between static DNS and DDNS is that DDNS allows zone files to be updated via special nsupdate packets. Update packets are sent to the DNS by either a DHCP/BOOTP server or by each node. No current MS OS supports this latter type of DDNS registration, but their are 3rd party tools to make it happen. One bummer about Linux is that its DHCP server does not yet support DDNS updates. Here's one area where NT's DNS/DDNS really stinks: you are forced to use the MMC GUI tool to admin it. Yucko! IMNSHO, vi & perl are the ONLY tools for DNS. =)
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The bug reports and feedback MS garners from RC code does not actually make it into RTM code. Rather, that information is fed into the "service pack 1" product.
This is what I was told from an MS developer.
Practice what you preach there, pal. I've got no idea what you are talking about and neither do you it seems. NT4/2k stores the DNS data in a binary format, have fun admining that with edit.com.
MCP Magazine published a similar piece in the 9/99 issue. For various reasons, they claimed that NT's DNS as superior to Unix. However, the uneducated author of that piece was really contrasting BIND 4 and BIND 8. I sent MCPMag a nasty-gram for that. Linux has had a BIND 8 compliant DNS out for a couple of years already. Unfortunately, many of the major Unices don't have a BIND 8 DNS out. AIX 4.3 being one exception to that. IBM was fairly aggressive in keeping up with the latest RFCs governing DNS/DDNS and DHCP. The key difference between static DNS and DDNS is that DDNS allows zone files to be updated via special nsupdate packets. Update packets are sent to the DNS by either a DHCP/BOOTP server or by each node. No current MS OS supports this latter type of DDNS registration, but their are 3rd party tools to make it happen. One bummer about Linux is that its DHCP server does not yet support DDNS updates. Here's one area where NT's DNS/DDNS really stinks: you are forced to use the MMC GUI tool to admin it. Yucko! IMNSHO, vi & perl are the ONLY tools for DNS. =)