"Microsoft Corp. has implemented DDNS (Dynamic Domain Name System) in
Windows 2000 in a way that makes it extremely difficult for administrators
to integrate the operating system upgrade with Unix systems, which use the
older, static DNS."
"We have a big-time political crisis over who's kingpin," said the
manager of IT operations at a major aerospace company that is testing
Windows 2000. For years, Unix and then Linux ran the company's firewall and
DNS services.
"A strategic decision to adopt Windows 2000 means you adopt it for
DNS," said the IT manager, who asked for anonymity. "Now we have Unix
programmers losing control, and they're angry. They perceive this as a
threat to their job."
