bind vs. MS DNS

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Mon Jun 21 01:10:42 UTC 2004


At 11:44 AM 6/17/2004, Barry Finkel wrote:
>I believe that if one takes a DC and turns off self-registration in
>TCP/IP properties, then that DC will NOT register its SRV records in
>DNS.  I believe that the registry setting referenced in MS article
>
>      816592 HOW TO: Configure DNS dynamic update in Windows 2003
>
>affects whether the DC will do DDNS for the SRV records or will produce
>a netlogon.dns file (that can be $INCLUDEd into a BIND zone file, as
>I did in my initial W2k DNS testing).
>
>In my setup I want each DC to register its SRV records dynamically in
>my MS W2k+3 DNS Server, but I do NOT want the DCs to do DDNS
>self-registration, which I do not allow on my BIND servers.  If I
>disable self-registration, then I disable SRV DDNS at the same time.
>
>We have an open trouble ticket with MS on a related issue (EventID
>40961), and I will suggest to MS that they decouple self-registration
>and registration of SRV records.

Why bother in the first place? When you set up a DC add the SRV record
into the zone yourself just as you would any other record. I have no idea
what your trouble ticket is about, but nothing prevents you from creating
your own SRV record.

Danny



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