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NFR Wizards Archive: Re: Gauntlet v3.0 (NT) questions

Re: Gauntlet v3.0 (NT) questions

dreamwvr (dreamwvrdreamwvr.com)
Tue, 02 Feb 1999 20:01:23 -0700

hi,
  if your going to do it the right way and not suffer the ineptitude
of using a broken implementation why not just download the latest gamma or
better and run it on linux or FreeBSD that would be plenty and the
cost is very low when you consider the problems that can occur when
with bad timing your windows system hangs and you need to click setup to
reinstall the whole thing. (it does happen...) Seems that windows gets
more unstable the older the install is and also the more load that is fed
it. unless of course the dns you are running is a secondary or caching only
for the primary UNIX :) DNS server IMHO you will also be rewarded with better
understanding of how dns actually works. This is after all what you elect to
do when you become the DNS admin or whatever so why not learn something
rather
than look blankly when there is a problem that is not in the single gui
provided by windows dns servers. They are fine for desktops but then
again your not running your desktop over the internet are you:) you
are trying to run as efficient resolving of name to ip resolution and
vice versa as you can and that is not done with windows. plus the latest
*NIX DNS versions are very efficient and standards driven so they all talk
the
same language rather then attempt to change the language of resolving upon
the big I. DNS is a great example of the mega-user systems that are out
there that do not depend on ... oops there goes another 1000 sites/users;')
whatever FWIW save yourself the agrevation... the www.isc.org which is run
from what i understand by cricket is top notch and will get you thru the
rough spots... i know this from my own personal experience. so ...what
are you waiting for! :)
                                                Regards,
                                                dreamwvrdreamwvr.com
At 12:40 PM 2/2/99 -0500, Joseph S D Yao wrote:
>> With the first option you are at the mercy of whichever DNS product you put
>> on the firewall -- Microsoft DNS isn't super robust in my experience.
>> MetaInfo may still be making their DNS server.
>
>Per <URL: http://www.isc.org/bind.html>, they still have a BIND
>release, as do software.com and isc.org themselves, as well as several
>others. Any version of BIND seems better than MS DNS, per reports.
>
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