Static WINS mappings to DNS?

[Jukka]

Hello.

Our NT4 WINS server is soon going to be shut down for
the very last time. Is there an easy way to export WINS
static mappings and import 'em to Win2k DNS service?

The Win2k box is configured as a primary DNS server
for our client computers. How should I configure
these static mappings to Win2k DNS? None of these
abt. 100 mappings can be found on public DNS servers
and they all point to our customers networks. Some
of these IP addresses are in private networks with
a dialup connection from us and some are public
addresses accessed via Internet but without public
DNS recors.

Someone may suggest installing both WINS and DNS on
same server, but...

....I once had both DNS and WINS on another Win2k server
with two network adapters (routing between two different
networks) and it didn't work at all: workstations didn't
find domain controller (same server) but ping reported
success. Stopping WINS service on that server solved
the problem. It seemed that domain crontroller/netlogon
somehow registered itself on WINS but not in DNS. I don't
know what was the actual cause for this odd behaviour but
I'm afraid something like that may happen again if I start
WINS on this server.

What would be the best solution?

Tnx,

 

[NuT CrAcKeR]

why on earth would you do that?

Just have every machine on your network register into DNS when they boot up.
That way, its always up to date.

You need to configure DNS for Dynamic Updates, and you do this at the
properties for the zone file.

NuTs

 

[Jukka]

Thu, 2 Oct 2003 14:50:23 -0500 "NuT CrAcKeR"

why on earth would you do that?

Just have every machine on your network register into DNS when they boot up.
That way, its always up to date.

You need to configure DNS for Dynamic Updates, and you do this at the
properties for the zone file.

NuTs

Our own workstations do register into our DNS service
and that works OK.

These workstations I'm talking about (with static WINS
mappings) cannot register into our DNS because they are
on other networks around the country, not on our LAN.
They have no records on public DNS servers and cannot
be made to register one. We have some 100-150 customer
servers around the country that we manage with leased
and dialup lines. I'm talking about the name/IP-address
static mappings of these "external" servers.

So, is there a way to easily migrate from NT4 WINS static
mappings to Win2k DNS - how to do this?

 

[NuT CrAcKeR]

No.

But you can upgrade the 4.0 server to 2000 and it should preserve the wins
database. Or.. you can move the DB from 4.0 to 2000 ( see:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;300473 ).

Then, you can turn on DNS for Wins resolution for the zones that pertain to
these systems.

NuTs