microsoft claims

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

> 
> Can anyone dispute these claims:
> 
> Microsoft Windows 2000 DNS vs. Bind 8.2
> 
> 1. MS claims they support for secure dynamic update based on the
> gss-tsig algorithm and bind does not.

	Actually MS does not support it either.  Their implementation
	does not match their draft.  BIND 9.1 or 9.2 should support
	gss-tsig.  There are no plans for adding GSS-TSIG support to
	BIND 8.

> 
> 2. bind does not support wins and wins-r records

	And is unlikly that it ever will.  Support requires server
	side extentsions which by the time MS released a spec for
	were obsolete.  I asked MS for them years earlier.

> 
> 3. bind does not support utf-8 character encoding.

	Actually it does support UTF8.  If you put UTF8 in the labels
	it will happily serve it.  You just have to convert the UTF8 to
	RFC1034 for entry.

> 
> 
> These are the claims.  Now I realize that thier comparison is
> with bind 8.2 and not 8.2.2p5.  The question is are the statements true
> for 8.2 and are they true for 8.2.2p5.
> 
> My gut instinct says that at least for 8.2.2p5 they are not true.
> 
> Here's the url reference (not you have to be running IE to see
> this page becuase MS has a javascript difference):
> 
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/library/resources/reskit/samplechapter/c
> ncf/cncf_imp_bdvd.asp
> 
> Joe
> 
> 
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