Will NW 5.x, NW 6.0, or NW 6.5 DNS work as the DNS or Dynamic DNS (DDNS) server for a mixed NetWare / Windows 2000 network?

(Last modified: 18Nov2005)

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goal

fact

Windows 2000 requires compliance with RFC 2136 (DNS dynamic update protocol) and RFC 2052 (SRV service resource records).

fix

DNS on NW 5.0 and 6.0 only supports dynamic DNS when talking to our DHCP server, not a Microsoft DHCP server. This is unlikely to change for now.

As far as the RR records are concerned, we support the following:

+ a, aaaa, afsdb, hinfo, isdn, x25, mb, mg, minfo, mr, mx, ns, ptr, px, rp, rt, srv, txt, wks

DNS for NW 6.5

We support both RFC2136 updates and NetWare DHCP updates in NetWare 6.5 server. But, we don't support any other updates if it's in some other format. Windows 2000 and 2003 follow RFC 2136 updates, so we do support updates from them in our NetWare 6.5 server.

document

Document Title:	Will NW 5.x, NW 6.0, or NW 6.5 DNS work as the DNS or Dynamic DNS (DDNS) server for a mixed NetWare / Windows 2000 network?
Document ID:	10025912
Solution ID:	1.0.52976205.2521435
Creation Date:	01Feb2000
Modified Date:	18Nov2005
Novell Product Class:	NetWare

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