Comparing Features of Active Directory and of BIND

While some earlier versions of BIND will function with Active Directory, BIND 8.2.1 is the minimum recommended version. BIND 8.2.1 supports the SRV (service) resource records, dynamic updates, negative caching, and incremental zone transfers. There are no technical reasons to use a BIND DNS implementation with Active Directory.

The following table compares the features supported in Windows 2000 DNS and BIND.

Feature Windows 2000 BIND 8.2.1 BIND 4.9.7

SRV records Yes Yes Yes

Dynamic Update Yes Yes No

Secure Dynamic Update Yes No No

WINS & WINS-R records Yes No No

Fast zone transfer Yes Yes Yes

Incremental zone transfer Yes Yes No

UTF-8 character encoding Yes No No

Feature	Windows 2000	BIND 8.2.1	BIND 4.9.7
SRV records	Yes	Yes	Yes
Dynamic Update	Yes	Yes	No
Secure Dynamic Update	Yes	No	No
WINS & WINS-R records	Yes	No	No
Fast zone transfer	Yes	Yes	Yes
Incremental zone transfer	Yes	Yes	No
UTF-8 character encoding	Yes	No	No

Note For more information on SRV resource records and dynamic DNS, see RFC 2782 and RFC 2136.