Windows 2000 DNS: With Active Directory and Without Active Directory

With Windows 2000 DNS, can be utilized as a traditional DNS server. You are able to use similar configuration files and directly interface with non-Microsoft DNS servers and Windows NT 4.0 DNS servers. This use of Windows 2000 DNS provides for integration with an existing DNS implementation as either a secondary or a primary DNS server. If you bring a Windows 2000 DNS into an existing DNS environment, it is typically as a secondary server that uses the typical full-zone file transfers.

You can also integrate the DNS databases into Active Directory. If you decide to use Windows 2000 DNS and Active Directory integration, you are able to take advantage of Active Directory's replication ...

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