Bind vs windows dns

Only linux machines what i have left is Moodle and 2x Bind. The licensing and resources isnt issue bec i have 3 Hyper-V hosts running 2k8 R2 datacenters in cluster. So im trying to resolve wich is more secure. Just thinking the future. Less and less guys who can run linux and knows how to configure things. If your running a MS shop, that is fine - I have worked for many many years in one.

Nothing wrong with that. That is not the impression I got from your 1st post, nor can I tell from your second post what this dns is going to do?? Is it going to provide dns for your AD, and internal users to query for say google. Or is it hosting external zones for the internet to query for a A record in somedomain. I think you would be hard pressed to find anyone running MS dns for providing dns to the public on more than a handful of domains. Have you ever seen a webhost host their dns via MS?

In my last company, global fortune company - international locations in well over 23 countries. Hosted their handful of public domains on their own servers for the internet, they were not MS DNS boxes ; No reason for them to be!

No reason to pay for the licenses for the server to just serve DNS. How many domains do you need to provide name services for to the public internet? To be honest, depending how many zones your talking - if for the public, your more than likely better off just getting some outside company to host your domains for you and not have any servers for external domains.

Driven by long configuration files, BIND can be a pain to get started but is rather easy to keep going under either a Windows or Linux environment. Brand Representative for Microsoft. Their are no major differences. Just management of the service is different. Actually DNS was originally built on Unix. BIND is still very popular and widely used to run the Internet.

I typically suggest running Windows DNS where you have AD environments and especially if you are already mostly a Microsoft environment just because you don't need additional servers. As others have mentioned, management is the major difference End of the day, it does the same nslookup will give the same results on a Linux vs windows server.

What prompts your question is the real question I would love to switch our systems to linux eventually just to get out of licensing everything Windows, cause it is simply the default standard Red hat is that good Windows HAD to steal the parts that made it better That being said, its a bastard of a thing imo Show Threads. Show Posts. Registered User.

Join Date: Dec But I am not sure about security and features. Join Date: Jun Just a few thoughts, necessarily general because you didn't specify any performance parameters or any information on where the nameserver will be placed in your network architecture. I would start by considering the rest of your infrastructure and method of operations.

If you're a mostly windows shop, then there's a benefit to using Windows tools, since they'll be more familiar to your staff, and likely inter-operate better. I would probably do some research, looking at how frequently, and of what severity, each had reported security issues, say over the last years, and how quickly patches were produced. Features: I think the feature sets are comparable, but depending on your thoughts on the management part above, you might find that you're more comfortable configuring Windows to do Dynamic DNS updates, say, than doing the same with BIND.

Performance - without a good understanding of what you'll want to get out of your DNS server for performance, it's hard to say. I have generally found that it often takes more hardware to run a high-capacity DNS server on Windows than on Linux. But then again, I know how to tune Linux machines, and my skills in that area for Windows are less well developed.

It's quite easy to generate a lot of DNS traffic on a test network. If performance is really a concern, I generally find that actual testing seems to be the best way to determine that. Join Date: Aug If the record is not registered in a zone, or if you have too many zones for the search list to be practical, using the Global Names zone may be an option.

Does 'sam' have a record in WINS, but 'peanut' not? I would strongly encourage moving away from WINS, but hopefully this will solve your short-term problem. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.

Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Windows Ask Question. Asked 7 years, 3 months ago. Active 6 years, 7 months ago. Viewed 25k times. Protracted exposition: On Hold I've been instructed to address other things since this began, so I haven't gotten back to it yet.

Peanut is brand-new. Linux uses DNS exactly how I want this to work: [ Please check the name and try again. Improve this question.