Re: Communication question...

Attention: the dynamic-DNS of win2k is a microsoft-specific way to do it:
The DNS database of this is stored in parts inside the registry and in parts
in the ADS, which is not fault tolerant at all. This is completly against the 
(old)
idea of spreading DNS info to several machines on the net to have redundant
sources and hence be safe against failures of the main DNS machine.
If you loose your ADS master in a win2k network, you loose DNS completely
that's it !! There was a good article on this topic in techrepublic, 
benchmarking
the fault tolerance of differenet (server)-OSes. I don't have the URL at hand
right now, but the had unix, win2k and novell on the contest and Novell's NDS
was the best product when it came to fault tolerance ... sigh.

just my two (euro-) cents, Philipp Rusch


James Rich schrieb:

> On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, John Ross wrote:
>
> > There is Dynamic DNS for windows 2000 that works with DHCP. I have never
> > seen it and do not know anything about it. There are probably better links
> > to it
> > http://support.microsoft.com/directory/article.asp?ID=KB;EN-US;Q246804&;
>
> This is no good if you have systems that cache DNS entries to speed things
> up on your network.  If you spread your DNS around your network to reduce
> load on your DNS servers and to provide redundant and more robust service
> then you just create headaches if you do dynamic DNS like this.
>
> James Rich
> james@eaerich.com
>
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