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It's not about capability, it's about licensing. Exposing your Microsoft DNS Server over the Internet would require a Windows CAL for every citizen of the world
by tremon 6y ago
It's not about capability, it's about licensing. Exposing your Microsoft DNS Server over the Internet would require a Windows CAL for every citizen of the world, or an additional External Connector license to the tune of $5000 per server per year. That's a lot of money for the "convenience" of not having to setup a BIND slave zone.
- jiggawatts 6y agoThat's just not true, you don't need CALs for anonymous access, and most enterprises have different licensing such as Datacenter Edition where this just doesn't apply. Just like how you can run an Internet-facing website on IIS, you can run a DNS server on Windows. Anyway, $5000 is pocket change for most orgs, and it's a lot less than what it would cost to run an additional operating system on top of Windows. The time it would take just to choose a distro before even starting to set up several Linux or BSD servers would cost more than $5K in most places I've been. Then you have to worry about keeping them patched, backed up, in-sync with each other, etc... If you don't already run a largely Linux/UNIX shop, spinning up BIND is much, much more expensive than a couple of additional Windows VMs on top of the pile of hundreds they likely already have.
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