Windows 2000 DNS interopates with other DNS implementations. The following table
compares DNS features of the vaious DNS implementations.
Feature | W2K | NT 4.0 | BIND 8.2 | BIND 8.1.2 | BIND 4.9.7 |
Support for SRV records | Yes | Yes SP4+ | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Support for dynamic update | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No |
Support for secure dynamic update based on GSS-TSIG algorithm | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Support for WINS and WINS-R records | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
Support for fast zone transfer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Support for incremental zone transfer | Yes | No | Yes | No | No |
Support for UTF-8 character encoding RFC2044 | Yes | No | No | No | No |
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