Naming the best DNS for Windows NT
These five DNS servers fill a range of needs when you're connecting NT nets to the Internet.
By Wayne Spivak
Copyright 1996 Network World, Inc.
How we did it: DNS serversWe tested all products as primary Domain Name Service (DNS) servers on a 120-MHz Pentium server with 128M bytes of RAM. In the first round of tests, the server had Windows NT Version 3.51 with Service Pack 4 installed. In the second round, the same server had Windows NT 4.0 (Build 1381) installed. The server was connected to an Ethernet 10Base-T network (with a total of three machines), which was connected via a Cisco Systems, Inc. 2501 router to a T-1 connection to the Internet. All the products ran on a production server, which acts as a primary DNS server, for a period of at least three days. This server, which supports a 50-node Windows NT network, hosts a Web site that gets a minimum of 70,000 hits per month and passes 6,000 E-mail messages per month. We tested each product for stability, ease of configuration, debugging features, ease of migration from a Unix system to NT and reverse mapping.
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