W2K multi-master features

mark.ctr.wheatley at faa.gov mark.ctr.wheatley at faa.gov
Fri Aug 16 19:02:44 UTC 2002



      Response in-line below. Sorry for the messed up formatting, I don't
know how to set Notes to do better.
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Mark W. Wheatley, BSc
AVR/AFS-650/LMIT
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>In the event of a conflict (two servers recording changes to the
>same DNS entry between replication cycles), the record with the newer
>timestamp "wins" and the older change is discarded.

      The result of this will be the discarding of an otherwise valid
update.

>Running a single DNS on anything but a very small unimportant network is a
>mistake IMHO.  Without DNS, your Win2K and WinXP clients will not be able
to
>locate the Domain Controller and will not be able to logon.  A minimum of
>two DNS servers is recommended, more if you have multiple subnets and
sites.

      Agreed on the minimum of two DNS servers, but nothing says they have
to be Microsoft products.








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