Bind8 Dynamic DNS How-To?

[Luis Camacho]

Kevin wrote
Prepare to be disappointed. From what I gather, there is no way for
Win2K to make strongly-authenticated Dynamic Updates to BIND

Kevin, I hope you don't feel like I'm stepping on you, but you can correct
if I'm wrong.  The following web site explains the benefit of the latest and
greatest bind and it says that Interoperability with MS-Win2K has been
improved. So, While I haven't tried it yet, I would say that You are right
but new heights are being reached to make them work together.  It also
mentions that Bind now has Support for Windows/NT (thanks to BayNetworks).

Just a little info:

http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/docs/bind8.2_highlights.html
*   Interoperability with MS-Win2K has been improved.
*   Support for Windows/NT (thanks to BayNetworks).

Luis

-----Original Message-----
From: kcd at daimlerchrysler.com [mailto:kcd at daimlerchrysler.com]
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 5:30 PM
To: bind-users at isc.org
Subject: Re: Bind8 Dynamic DNS How-To?


Jeff Newton wrote:

> I've been using Bind 8.2.2 for a while now but I'd like to start
> implementing the dynamic DNS features for our many DHCP Windoze
> machines.  Plus with Win2K fast approaching.....

Prepare to be disappointed. From what I gather, there is no way for
Win2K to make strongly-authenticated Dynamic Updates to BIND, and
without proper authentication, not only is there the obvious security
risk, but there's really nothing to stop the Win2K boxes from stomping
on each other's records (since the server can't really tell one client
from another). Of course, Microsoft has this problem "solved", as long
as you use *their* servers for DNS instead of BIND. Yippee.


- Kevin