DNS Management

[Jeff Robinson]

Jim,


QIP 5.x uses RFC 2136 compliant DDNS to update its DNS servers from
DHCP servers.

The proprietary protocol is used from the DHCP service to update the
back-end Sybase or Oracle database.


QIP 5.x works just fine with ISC's BIND.




On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Jim Reid wrote:

> >>>>> "Simon" == Simon Earthrowl <simon at starcove.co.uk> writes:
> 
>     Simon> Lucent have a DHCP & DNS management package, which works
>     Simon> with ISC's server.
> 
> That depends on your definition of "works". QIP uses a proprietary
> update mechanism to diddle the caches of other QIP-managed name
> servers. This obviously can't work with pure BIND name servers.
> Zone transfers are needed to propagate changes to those servers.
> 
> 
>