DNS for Win2K (was: Win2000 "junk" in DNS)

[Barry Finkel]

Cricket responded to a posting:

> 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.

In our setup we have a MS Win2k RTM DNS with one forward zone.
Our other zones are on Solaris BIND 8.2.2-p5 boxes.  When the MS DNS
zone is transferred to the BIND DNS, I see this message:

     owner name "gc._msdcs.w2k.anl.gov" IN (secondary) is invalid - proceeding anyway

I looked at the zone that was transferred, and that string with the
underscore appears only twice:

$ORIGIN _tcp.Default-First-Site-Name._sites.gc._msdcs.w2k.anl.gov.
$ORIGIN _tcp.gc._msdcs.w2k.anl.gov.

And in both of these the string is part of a longer string.  Is BIND
removing the offending line from the zone being transferred?
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