Importing large amounts of addresses into Microsoft DNS

[Simon Waters]

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d.needles at comcast.net wrote:
>
> Actually in a
> pinch you can also download CYGWIN to get UNIX tools on Windows in a
pinch.

Two pinches? Some of us would download it (or something similar) if
forced to administer a Windows NT box without any pinching ;)

Perhaps the missing bit is that NT DNS allows you to store the DNS
information in files rather than the registry, and I'd recommend using
files. So it is basically the same issue as importing into BIND.

On the downside I only ever used Windows NT DNS at one site because the
client insisted, it really wasn't upto the task of serious DNS serving,
even on the site I was persuaded to use it, they failed to note the
wonderful way repeated retries to transfer a duff domain was eating vast
chunks of their bandwidth. It works well when everything is perfect, but
look at the hoops you have to jump through to troubleshoot simple
problems, and compare that with other DNS servers like BIND 9.

W2K DNS on the other hand has more reasons to make you "buy in" to
Microsoft DNS, however I can't help pointing out that this is deliberate
policy on the part of Microsoft, but that is another issue.
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