Win2k Migration Questions
Danny Mayer
mayer at gis.net
Wed Jan 17 02:53:02 UTC 2001
At 03:36 PM 1/16/01, Jeff Newton wrote:
>We use a Bind infrastructure for DNS currently but I have a number of
>questions/concerns related to a migration from NT to Win2k. I am
>hoping for some advice from those who have been down this path before.
>
>We currently have an NT domain name with an underscore in the name
>(eg. NT_Net). We are now looking at how to deal with this underscore
>issue with the migration to Win2k. I am also not comfortable with
>Win2k/Bind interaction with respect to DDNS.
>
>I was thinking of the following deployment strategy:
>
>Let Win2k ADS resolve for NT_Net.corp.com and continue to use Bind for
>corp.com. PCs got to ADS for DNS and unix machines go to a Bind DNS
>server to resolve names/IPs.
>
>One issue would be PC's resolving unix machine names and vice versa.
>Would it be best to make ADS a secondary for corp.com and Bind a
>secondary for NT_Net.corp.com?
Underscores are illegal in names. I assume that this is an internal
domain, since you can't propogate this outside your company. You'll
have to disable name checking in Bind to do this.
>Does this deployment sound reasonable? Any suggestions for someone
>running a strictly Bind infrastructure tasked with deploying Win2k?
If this was a strictly Bind infrastructure, you wouldn't have an illegal
character in your domain name.
Danny
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