Win2k Migration Questions

[Danny Mayer]

At 03:36 PM 1/16/01, Jeff Newton wrote:


>We use a Bind infrastructure for DNS currently but I have a number of
>questions/concerns related to a migration from NT to Win2k.  I am
>hoping for some advice from those who have been down this path before.
>
>We currently have an NT domain name with an underscore in the name
>(eg. NT_Net).  We are now looking at how to deal with this underscore
>issue with the migration to Win2k.  I am also not comfortable with
>Win2k/Bind interaction with respect to DDNS.
>
>I was thinking of the following deployment strategy:
>
>Let Win2k ADS resolve for NT_Net.corp.com and continue to use Bind for
>corp.com.  PCs got to ADS for DNS and unix machines go to a Bind DNS
>server to resolve names/IPs.
>
>One issue would be PC's resolving unix machine names and vice versa.
>Would it be best to make ADS a secondary for corp.com and Bind a 
>secondary for NT_Net.corp.com?  

         Underscores are illegal in names.  I assume that this is an internal
   domain, since you can't propogate this outside your company.  You'll
   have to disable name checking in Bind to do this.

>Does this deployment sound reasonable?  Any suggestions for someone
>running a strictly Bind infrastructure tasked with deploying Win2k?

         If this was a strictly Bind infrastructure, you wouldn't have an illegal
   character in your domain name.

                 Danny