Re: Gauntlet v3.0 (NT) questions

[dreamwvr <dreamwvr () dreamwvr com>]

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,
                                                dreamwvr () dreamwvr 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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