Why I Don't Trust the MS Win2k Code
Barry Finkel
b19141 at achilles.ctd.anl.gov
Thu Mar 8 15:31:32 UTC 2001
This is an example (from among a number I have) why I do not trust the
MS Win2k DNS code.
We have 11 zones on our production Win2k DNS box; eight are the
MS "_" zones. The other two are one forward zone and two reverse
zones. We had the first case yesterday afternoon where my two BIND
slaves reported a serial number problem when trying to transfer
seven of the zones. (Four had no problems.) The serial numbers were
Zone MS W2k DNS BIND
----- --------- -----------
1 2001030605 2001030606
_2 23 24
_3 671 683
_4 43 44
_5 84 497
_6 89 505
_7 23 24
The first zone is a zone that I moved yesterday from a BIND master to
the MS Win2k DNS master because that zone will need to have DDNS from
Win2k boxes and DHCP servers. That is why it has a "traditional"
serial number. The other zones are all "_" zones, and I defined them
initially on the MS Win2k DNS, so they have serials that started at 1.
I know that this phenomenon has been reported before on this discussion
group. I will open a trouble ticket with MS today.
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Barry S. Finkel
Electronics and Computing Technologies Division
Argonne National Laboratory Phone: +1 (630) 252-7277
9700 South Cass Avenue Facsimile:+1 (630) 252-9689
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