Windows 2000 DNS

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Interoperability with Other DNS Servers

Windows 2000 DNS is RFC-compliant and interoperates with other DNS implementations. It has been tested to work with Windows NT 4.0, BIND 8.2, BIND 8.1.2, and BIND 4.9.7. However, Windows 2000 supports some features that other implementations of DNS do not support. Table 6.11 compares Windows 2000 to Windows NT 4.0, BIND 8.2, BIND 8.1.2, and BIND 4.9.7.

Table 6.11 Comparison of Features


Feature

Windows 2000

Windows NT 4.0
BIND
8.2
BIND 8.1.2 BIND 4.9.7
Support for the IETF Internet-Draft "A DNS RR for specifying the location of services (DNS SRV)." (SRV records) Yes Yes (with Service Pack 4) Yes Yes Yes
Support for dynamic update Yes No Yes Yes No
Support for secure dynamic update based on the GSS-TSIG algorithm Yes No No No No
Support for WINS and WINS-R records Yes Yes No No No
Support for fast zone transfer Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Support for incremental zone transfer Yes No Yes No No
Support for UTF-8 character encoding Yes No No No No

The following sections describe issues to consider when implementing features that other DNS servers do not support, and describes how to set up DNS to support Active Directory when you are using third-party DNS servers.

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