troubles 4 beginner

[Danny Mayer]

At 10:02 AM 1/8/02, MarcoA wrote:
>hi,
>
>in my lan i have an authoritative dns (solaris), and this is set up as
>primary server an all pc, along with a backup server from the ISP.
>now i need to implement a NT(4srv sp6) solution, so i'm trying bind 825
>
>i have made a zone transfer from solaris to bind, and successfully started
>the bind service. except for the errors regarding world-writability of "."
>and "mydir\dns\etc", i have no other dns issues.
>due to a previous try, which ended in a strange behaviour,

What kind of strange behavior?

>  i just wish to
>try the new server for a week or so, so i have now set up the bind box as
>the only DNS server on my pc, while all other users are using the solaris
>dns server.
>
>it seems to work, right now, but is this dangerous?

There is no reason why it should not work. In what way do you think it would
be dangerous.  The worst that can happen is that the DNS Server fails and
your pc can't resolve addresses until it is restarted or you change your
IP nameserver configuration.

         Danny

>help me please,
>
>Marco