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by juan_fernando_salazar

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Hi,

I would like to know how do these services, windows DNS and BIND, relate to each other? Is it BIND a product or a protocol? and which version is it?

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by timwalsh

Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) is an application used by most (if not all) Unix/Linux software packages to implement DNS.

There is a Windows version of BIND that can be used as an alternative to the Windws implementation of DNS.

Windows DNS and BIND are necessarily compatible, otherwise the Internet would not work (or atleast Windows DNS servers wouldn't be recognized on the Internet).

Windows 2000 and Active Directory require the use of Dynamic DNS (DNS that is dynamically updateable). Versions 8.3 or later of BIND implement Dynamic DNS.

Most recent version of BIND is 9.4

Hope this answers your questions.

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