VitalQIP provides support for the Microsoft* Windows* 200x server network operating system in various ways.

This support includes

• the porting of the VitalQIP system to Microsoft Windows 200x server
• the management of Microsoft Windows 2000/3 DHCP and DNS server
• integration with Windows Active Directory service
• the Lucent DNS Service supports GSS-TSIG secure DNS authentication

VitalQIP is capable of managing all DNS name space, even if that space is modified by another product. VitalQIP can represent resource records that are added to the DNS name space by other products as external objects or external resource records.

An external object or resource record is created by dynamic DNS updates (defined by RFC 2136) from some product to a Lucent DNS server managed by VitalQIP. For example, Microsoft operating systems, such as Windows 200x, perform dynamic DNS updates whenever a host boots. The Lucent DNS server is then updated with the host’s name, IP address, and hosted services. When a Lucent DNS server managed by VitalQIP processes this dynamic update, it sends the update to VitalQIP.

VitalQIP represents this record as an external resource record or an external object. These external resource records or external objects are deleted by VitalQIP when the record is deleted from DNS. VitalQIP can optionally send the external update to all DNS servers that manage the affected zone.