Umm, let's take this offline before we freak the list out...
BTW - Also reference comp.os.ms-windows.nt.pre-release
comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.networking
and majordomo @
iss .
net (NT Security)
Bill
At 02:05 PM 6/6/96 EDT, Steven C. Payne wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 4 Jun 1996 13:30:15 -0700
>> Bill Stout <bill .
stout @
hidata .
com>
>> Wrote Subject: NT DNS in 4.0b2
>> "The only drawback I've seen is not being able to connect to non-NT DNS
server properties."
>> Can you explain exactly what you mean.
>> Will an internal DNS running on NT4.0b2 not be able to say talk to a
Unix firewall??
>
>Hi,
>I setup an older version of DNS and in my testing, I ran into
>2 problems which maybe you can elaborate on in this new version.
>
>First, I could not just "move" my zone and revs to the NT server
>because we do secondary DNS for 50 domains. This equates to 50 zone
>files and 50 rev files. Well When I set up the dns boot file on the
>NT box, I started the service it ran for maybe 5 mins caching and then died,
>no errors, nothing. I also could not stop the service, I had to reboot
>the NT server.
>
>So, I thought ok, scale it back to just ONE domain, (my local one)
>I deleted all other domains and started the service again, it cached for
>about 2 minutes and died. Again, I tried to stop the service and
>it would not allow me to, so I had to reboot the NT server.
>This happened on a domain with around 2500 entries.
>
>I scaled it back to only 500 entries and tried again. This
>time the services started, ran with no errors.
>
>I then went to a unix box and tried nslookup on hosts I new
>were in the DNS files on the NT server, I got absolutely
>NO responses from the NT server, and timed out on every
>attempt I tried to query on.
>
>was able to use the nslookup client on the NT box and query EVERYTHING
>in the NT's domain files. I even configured the WINS entry in the
>zone file and that worked, but ONLY from the NT client.
>I never got nslookup on unix boxes (hpux, solaris, interactive, bsdi, sco)
>to work.
>
>
>My 2 problems are does NT service other clients than just NT,
>and second, how much can you cache? If you can't cache secondary
>servers then I don't see NT DNS as doing anything worth wile in DNS.
>BTW the server had 64 mg of ram, and was not doing anything, it was
>pretty much just idling.
>
>Is this what you were talking about?
>thanks
>steve
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Richard
>>
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