Win2000 "junk" in DNS

[Cricket Liu]

> Anyway, I run DNS (both primary and secondary) for several of our
> companies and recently I found this in my log files:
>
> Jan  5 11:46:33 lewis named[112]: owner name "gc._msdcs.msec.com" IN
> (secondary) is invalid - proceeding anyway
>
> Since you cannot have an underscore, I got on the phone to the DNS
> admin at the site and let him know he had an error.  He told me that it
> was part of Win2000 and required.
>
> My questions are this:
>
> 1) Has anyone else run into this or is it a bad configuration of MAD?

It's correct for Active Directory.  (That is, AD deliberately added that
record.)

> 2) Is MS trying to break (or force us away from) BIND so that we can
> only use their version?

I don't believe so, but I've just asked someone at Microsoft for
clarification.

cricket

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