Good to know. Hadn't heard of problems with Windows DNS, but had heard of
security issues with BIND.
The one thing I don't like about Windows DNS is the inability to enumerate
subdomains without manually parsing the zone files. Not sure what BIND has
now in terms of programmatically manipulating zone files to automate most
common processes and provide simple management interfaces. A few years ago
we ran DNS and hosting on Unix/BIND and had an inherited system with some
automated management capabilities, but all via telnet.
We now do all of our DNS management via a database driven system, with a web
UI and multiple security levels to provide some customers (collocated,
advanced customers, and resellers) the ability to manipulate DNS.
Darin.
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From: "R. Scott Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 10:01 AM
Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Nameserver issues and Spam fighting
>We've run Windows DNS (on our mail server as well) for several years with
no
>problems. I haven't ever seen a performance comparison of Windows DNS vs.
>BIND, though.
>
>Scott, what's your rationale behind recommending BIND instead?
Because I have heard many, many reports of problems with Windows
DNS. There are often mysterious problems that go away by rebooting a
Windows DNS server. If it is working fine for you, then I wouldn't
recommend switching -- it may well be that the version you are running
along with the way you have it set up (and your volume) doesn't have any
problems.
Part of the problem may be that Windows DNS is part of the OS (which only
gets a new release every couple of years), whereas BIND is a "standard"
product in that it is continually upgraded.
-Scott
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