Screaming Penguin - Source Does Matter

Microsoft is implementing DDNS (dynamic domain name service) in Windows 2000. DDNS, a system that links domain names to computers that receive their IP adress through DHCP, is a new technology that currently does not exist in either Unix or Microsoft software. Microsoft including this in their upcoming release of Windows 2000 will make it much more difficult to maintain a hybrid Unix/NT environmentNow before we go accusing Microsoft of cornering the market, lets look at the technology. Its implementation will allow home users and businesses with small budgets to easily host information without the purchasing of expensive IP addresses and complicated server equiptment. From my home computer, I could establish a chat room for my friends, share files without having to do redundant uploading, and do a whole number of other things without having to pay for 3rd party services. Throwing in the fact that the majority of the people on the internet receive their IP address dynamically, I think we have a winning technology.I say bravo to Microsoft for introducing a technology that will raise the bar for server software and the internet, not simply block others from getting to the bar, as we see so often. I hope that DDNS gains widespread use, and that the Unix community adapts it and strengthens a product that already has so many advantages.