Although BIND is still the DNS champ, Windows 2000 DNS is becoming more popular. But what do you do when you need to have both on your network? An interop pro shares how to make it happen—step by step ...

Serial numbers in zone files help your DNS service determine whether it should re-ingest your zone files or ignore them. But there’s more to these pseudo timestamps than meets the eye. In fact, the ...

OK, so I've recently switched my DNS services from Dotster to Granite Canyon, because GC is free and I figured I could write a host file with relative ease ...

Stub zones can beef up your DNS infrastructure. Here’s a practical guide to when and how to use them. In a previous DNS column, I briefly covered a new feature in Windows 2003 called stub zones. A ...

And if you've enabled secure updates only, then you need to upload the keytab file to the DHCP server if it's a BIND based appliance. The keytab file is kind of like an exported SSL cert, to allow the ...