bind vs. MS DNS

[Barry Finkel]

At 9:11 AM -0500 6/21/04, Barry Finkel wrote:
>>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

David Smith <l-bind at kdace.com> replied:

>No, it won't, however if you do have a dynamic zone for your AD main 
>domain the when you switch off the domain controllers from "register 
>this connection in DNS" it will REMOVE the dc's A records.  Since the 
>SRV records are basically fancy CNAME records your entire AD 
>structure stops working.  Kinda cool, in a test environment.

I do not know how to parse/interpret "No, it won't".  I can not tell
if you are agreeing with my statement

     no self-registration ====> no registration of SRV records

or if you are disagreeing with it.
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