A good reason to use Windows 2000 DNS?
staalejg
staalejg at bigfoot.com
Tue May 2 20:51:21 UTC 2000
Can someone confirm?
In a network where you have Windows 9x,NT 4.0 (legacy clients) and
Windows 2000 Clients, and the following is true:
- Windows 9x, NT 4.0 legacy clients do not use DHCP (statically configured
IP, WINS, DNS)
- Windows 9x, NT 4.0 share printers and file shares.
- Windows 2000 Clients DO NOT use WINS.
The only way that a Windows 2000 client can resolve a legacy clients IP
address would be to:
- Run a Windows 2000 DNS server and use WINS integration.
or
- Statically configure legacy client's IP address in a non-w2k DNS server
for Win2k clients to resolve.
With option 1 being the preferred method (for obvious reasons), that would
mean that you would need to have at least 1 Win2k DNS server on your
network, since no other DNS implementation supports WINS resource records.
RIGHT?
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