Win2000 "junk" in DNS

[David Zade]

MAD makes extensive use of DNS, including dynamic updates.  Before you start
deploying WIN2000 it is best to do extensive testing, and develope a plan.
Included in plan the must be naming conventions (eg: no underscores), and
probaly upgrades to DNS.  The vendor I use recently completed WIN2000
testing, and released compatibility fixes.

Note, had someone in my company bring up a BETA WIN2000 on production
network, this past summer, and hung the DNS server solid.

David zADE
dzade at compuserve.com



david.lane at mantech.com <david.laneNOdaSPAM at mantech.com.invalid> wrote in
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> Greetings,
>
> I thought I posted this earlier this morning, but it seems to have go
> awry.
>
> Anyway, I run DNS (both primary and secondary) for several of our
> companies and recently I found this in my log files:
>
> Jan  5 11:46:33 lewis named[112]: owner name "gc._msdcs.msec.com" IN
> (secondary) is invalid - proceeding anyway
>
>
> Since you cannot have an underscore, I got on the phone to the DNS
> admin at the site and let him know he had an error.  He told me that it
> was part of Win2000 and required.
>
> My questions are this:
>
> 1) Has anyone else run into this or is it a bad configuration of MAD?
>
> 2) Is MS trying to break (or force us away from) BIND so that we can
> only use their version?
>
> Since I really have no desire to run MAD, this is not (yet) a big deal,
> but several of my sites have decided that Microsoft is the answer to
> their dreams and have implemented it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> DAVID
>
>
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