One last W2K / Active Directory / BIND question

Cricket Liu cricket at nxdomain.com
Fri Aug 3 15:38:36 UTC 2001


> >  I agree with Tim.  Try using the registry entry that disables the
addition
> >  of
> >  the A record for the Windows 2000 domain name.  (See Microsoft
> >  Knowledge Base article Q246804 under "Netlogon A Registrations.")
>
> The one problem I see with this is that it requires that each and
> every client be changed to suit, whereas by giving them their own
> entire child zone to play with (and muck up however they like), this
> ceases to be a problem for the administrators of the main nameserver.
>
> If I am wrong, I would appreciate any additional info you may be
> able to provide.

Not all Windows 2000 clients try to add an A RR for the Windows
2000 domain's name; just the Domain Controllers do.  If you have a
lot of DCs, I suppose that's a little work, but it's not too onerous.

cricket



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