stealth server

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Thu Jul 5 23:46:31 UTC 2001


In article <9i2ip8$orr at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Kevin Darcy  <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote:
>When it's AD-integrated, Win2K doesn't care about the serial number of a zone,
>since it has no effect on replication amongst AD/Win2K servers. And it's a
>debatable point whether the DNS protocol actually *requires* incrementation[*] of
>the serial number for every change, when AXFR/IXFR is not being used for

It doesn't require it for every change.  But W2K *does* increment it when
it makes dynamic updates.  The problem is that it sometimes rolls it back,
which is *definitely* a protocol violation.

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