win2k's dns

[Farid Hamjavar]

I may be reading this incorrectly, but my
understanding is that this will have a big
impact on the way dns is done on internet.

If dns domain means NT-domain under win2k and
win2k's active directory can be used without dns ...

What are some of your thoughts on this?
I am just technically curious about this.


Thanks,
Farid


http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,1016137,00.html


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> Archeological Records Management Division -  OCA/HPD
> Windows 2000 to provoke domain game
> By Scott Berinato, PC Week Online
> August 27, 1999 4:09 PM ET
> 
> 
> As if the technical preparations required to integrate Windows 2000 into the
> enterprise aren't enough, IT managers will also have to manage brewing
> political battles, such as who controls a network's domain names.
> 
> Microsoft Corp. has implemented DDNS (Dynamic Domain Name System) in Windows
> 2000 in a way that makes it extremely difficult for administrators to
> integrate the operating system upgrade with Unix systems, which use the
> older, static DNS.
> 
> The Windows 2000 implementation of DDNS, which links domain names and IP
> addresses, all but requires Windows administrators to take control of naming
> services. Unix administrators, who have traditionally overseen DNS in mixed
> Unix/Windows NT environments, are fighting to keep control.
> 
> Windows NT 4.0, like Unix, uses static DNS.
> 
> Who's king?
> 
> It's a new variation on the old Windows vs. Unix theme, and judging by its
> effect on major Windows 2000 beta sites, the issue will only increase in
> importance once the operating system ships in October.
> 
> "We have a big-time political crisis over who's kingpin," said the manager
> of IT operations at a major aerospace company that is testing Windows 2000.
> For years, Unix and then Linux ran the company's firewall and DNS services.
> 
> "A strategic decision to adopt Windows 2000 means you adopt it for DNS,"
> said the IT manager, who asked for anonymity. "Now we have Unix programmers
> losing control, and they're angry. They perceive this as a threat to their
> job."
> 
> To use Windows 2000, a site also will likely have to use DDNS because it is
> extremely difficult to integrate the operating system and its Active
> Directory into a network using static DNS.
> 
> "I haven't seen anyone try to deploy Windows 2000 without DDNS because that
> would probably mean trying to deploy Windows 2000 without Active Directory,"
> said John Kretz, a systems integrator at Enlightened Point Consulting Group,
> in Phoenix.
> 
> DDNS the way to go?
> 
> Not everyone is blaming Microsoft for what is sure to divide many
> administrators at mixed Unix and Windows sites. The aerospace company's IT
> manager said developers of Unix and Linux operating systems should adopt the
> DDNS standard because it has inherent advantages.
> 
> For example, DDNS automatically updates client IP addresses when Dynamic
> Host Configuration Protocol changes them. With static DNS, IT managers must
> make those changes manually. For roving users, DDNS maps IP addresses to
> machine names.
> 
> Unix vendors, by and large, are working to adopt DDNS. Novell's NetWare 5.0
> supports third-party implementations of DDNS but also supports existing DNS
> infrastructures passively.
> 
> Microsoft officials say Windows 2000 users will be able to set up DNS zones
> to maintain their old DNS while applying DDNS to new servers entering the
> network.
> 
> While DDNS is not absolutely required, officials from the Redmond, Wash.,
> company maintain it is the preferred naming system. Further, many observers
> believe it will be impractical to deploy Windows 2000 under a static DNS
> structure already in place. For many customers, there's the rub.
> 
> "If Windows 2000 can't use what we use for DNS already, that will be a
> problem," said the network administrator at a major financial institution
> that has Unix machines running static DNS. "The infrastructure group doesn't
> want to have DNS services dictated to us by the groups choosing operating
> systems."
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