Case For Microsoft DNS v. BIND 9 - Or Best Practices For Coexisting

[Vinny Abello]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bind-users-bounces at lists.isc.org [mailto:bind-users-
> bounces at lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Danny Mayer
> Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 2:29 PM
> To: wiskbroom at hotmail.com
> Cc: bind-users at lists.isc.org
> Subject: Re: Case For Microsoft DNS v. BIND 9 - Or Best Practices For
> Coexisting
> 
> wiskbroom at hotmail.com wrote:
> > The case the windows team made was ease of adding entries, you simply
> > add into the MMC, or even easier, when you join a host into a domain,
> it
> > adds itself.
> >
> 
> This is not even true. To add a host to a domain you have to register
> it
> manually, either by going into ADS and adding it or a Domain
> Adminstrator has to enter it on the machine using his/her adminstrator
> password. There's nothing automatic about this.
> 
> Danny

This is getting a bit off topic, but non administrators can by default add a limited number of machines to a domain also.

On topic, I think what they are referring to is simple dynamic updates. For this I would recommend keeping MS DNS for the "internal" DNS. The reason for this is that it is based on Active Directory's multi-master replication which allows any authoritative DNS server to update the DNS record from a client.

We always use MS DNS for AD domains and use BIND for all external lookups. Way fewer headaches and it "just works".

-Vinny