stealth server

[Danny Mayer]

Barry Margolin wrote:

> In article <9i2ip8$orr at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
> Kevin Darcy  <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote:
> >When it's AD-integrated, Win2K doesn't care about the serial number of a zone,
> >since it has no effect on replication amongst AD/Win2K servers. And it's a
> >debatable point whether the DNS protocol actually *requires* incrementation[*] of
> >the serial number for every change, when AXFR/IXFR is not being used for
>
> It doesn't require it for every change.  But W2K *does* increment it when
> it makes dynamic updates.  The problem is that it sometimes rolls it back,
> which is *definitely* a protocol violation.

    See RFC 2136 Section 1 for definitions and Section 3.6 on SOA Serial
Number required behavior.

    Danny