Windows 2K DC A Record Visible When Running Nslookup against doma in name

[Tim Maestas]

	This is expected behaviour for MS Win2k domain controllers.
	There is a registry entry that will disable dynamic
	updates of A records by the domain controller.  See
	MS knowledgebase article Q246804.

-Tim


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On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Smith, William E., Jr. wrote:

> 
> This morning I noticed that when I run nslookup domain name, that the output
> returns not only the one entry I was expecting but the IP address of the two
> DC's we currently have running.  We're allowing the DC's (currently at
> least) to update their own A record. If we entered the A record manually,
> I'm not certain I'd see this behavior.  Has anyone noticed or seen this
> behavior?
> 
> Bill Smith
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