One last W2K / Active Directory / BIND question
Barry Finkel
b19141 at achilles.ctd.anl.gov
Mon Aug 6 14:56:34 UTC 2001
"Simpson, John R" wrote:
>> The problem appears to be that the W2K server wants to add an A
>> record assigning its IP address to the name "example.com." -- at least
>> that's the only new record. The existing record for sp01.example.com was
>> not changed. The new A record an annoying side effect in the lab, but in
>> our production environment it would be an error.
Danny Mayer <mayer at gis.net> replied:
>If this is a static IP address in the example.com domain, why not add it
>yourself?
>That should stop the update attempts.
That will NOT stop the update attempts. The netlogon process in W2k
will attempt to re-register is records every hour. The code does not
check to see if the "A" record or SRV records still exist in DNS.
I ignore these "denied update" records in my BIND syslog.
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