Hi. I currently have DNS and DHCP service provided by
the ISP. We plan to migrate NT to W2K. From what I
understand, AD relies heavily on DNS. Do you see any
problems with this migration using a 3rd party DNS and
DHCP service?

Thanks for your help.

"nn" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:012401c37cd5$eee0bd10$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi. I currently have DNS and DHCP service provided by
> the ISP. We plan to migrate NT to W2K. From what I
> understand, AD relies heavily on DNS. Do you see any
> problems with this migration using a 3rd party DNS and
> DHCP service?

Yes -- you will need to run your own INTERNAL DNS --
this one must be DYNAMIC which is inappropriate for a public
(Internet) DNS server and the ISP wouldn't allow that anyway.

Configure all internal machines to use the INTERNAL, dynamic
DNS only. (Including DCs and DNS servers)

THEN you forward from the internal DNS server to the external
ISP server so that you can still resolve Internet names.

--
Herb Martin

Well the best thing you could do is to use W2k DNS service, as it contains
all support needed for active directory. But, you can leave your external
DNS servers to your ISP and use your own for internal AD purposes and use
forwarders on internal DNS servers to resolve external domains. For AD you
can use other DNS servers, but they must be Bind 8.2.2+ compatible.

--
Regards

Matjaz Ladava, MCSE (NT4 & 2000), Windows MVP
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http://ladava.com

"nn" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:012401c37cd5$eee0bd10$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi. I currently have DNS and DHCP service provided by
> the ISP. We plan to migrate NT to W2K. From what I
> understand, AD relies heavily on DNS. Do you see any
> problems with this migration using a 3rd party DNS and
> DHCP service?
>
> Thanks for your help.

[kiaraben]

I am also using 3rd party DNS and really its works amazingly. It simply resolves all internet connection issues and thus provides faster and secure browsing. Download 3rd Party DNS is really an easy task, and should be done by all the PC users.