Can bind support RFC 2052 and 2163?

[Cricket Liu]

> Can bind 8.2 support RFC 2052  (A DNS RR for specifying the 
> location of services (DNS SRV)

It can and it does.  I believe BIND 4.9.5 was the first to
support SRV records.

> and RFC2163(Using the Internet DNS to Distribute
> MIXER Conformant Global Address Mapping (MCGAM))?

That's not the one you mean.  You're thinking of RFC 2136,
dynamic update.  That's been supported by BIND since 8.1.

> Windows 2000 implementation requires the DNS dynamic update 
> protocol. RFC 2052 and 2163. Is it possible to use existing bind
> implementation? 

Yes.

cricket

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