Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Mar 2000 08:56:50 -0500 (EST) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: How to survive in a Micro$oft environment?? |
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On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Olaf Titz wrote: > > The client might work fine, but what about the server side? Dynamic > addressing in an environment where Un*x is involved heavily depends on > the DNS getting it right. This means the DNS server has to integrate > in some way with the DHCP server so that they give out the same > adresses for one name every time, or all hell breaks loose. >
We thought we had solved this by having our internal DNS 'ask' the DHCP servers what their dynamic addresses were. Unfortunately M$ idea about port 53 is entirely different than the rest of the world. The returned information is garbage and not compatible with even the latest named/bind.
I had to set up a separate 'net', using a M$ DNS (two of them). That way, at least my DNS would slave the defective information so the M$ machines could use it even though Unix machines could not.
zone "analogic.net" in { type slave; masters { 10.98.2.1; 10.100.2.2; }; allow-query { any; }; allow-transfer { any; }; };
You can see the problem if you just do:
# nslookup lserver m$.garbage.server set type = ANY domain.name
Well.... at least M$ communicates on port 53. I guess that proves it's ready to ship.
Cheers, Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.3.41 on an i686 machine (800.63 BogoMips).
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