Operating System - Linux
1826267 Members
3769 Online
109692 Solutions
New Discussion

how to setup linux DNS Server to use WINS Lookups ?

 
'chris'
Super Advisor

how to setup linux DNS Server to use WINS Lookups ?

hi

how to setup linux DNS Server
to use WINS Lookups ?

I'm using bind 9.2.2 on linux SuSE 8.2

kind regards
chris
3 REPLIES 3
Paulo A G Fessel
Trusted Contributor

Re: how to setup linux DNS Server to use WINS Lookups ?

There are commercial products that do this (see http://www.metainfo.com for example), but I don't think that is this you want.

Another way is to export the WINS database as a DNS zone in Windows, and then configure your Linux server as a secondary for the Windows WINS/DNS domain. I don't know what is the change rate of your WINS database, so you need to check this up to determine the correct replication time between the primary (Windows) and secondary (Linux) server.

HTH
Paulo Fessel
L'employé propose, le boss dispose.
'chris'
Super Advisor

Re: how to setup linux DNS Server to use WINS Lookups ?

hi

my both DNS server primary and secondary
are linux and I don't have WINDOWS DNS

can I export WINS database to the linux DNS
as a DNS zone ?

kind regards
chris

Paulo A G Fessel
Trusted Contributor

Re: how to setup linux DNS Server to use WINS Lookups ?

Yes, but you must set up a Windows DNS server in order to do that.

[]'s
Paulo Fessel
L'employé propose, le boss dispose.