How WindowsXX Systems know who to try to Update

[Barry Finkel]

Martin McCormick <martin at dc.cis.okstate.edu> wrote:

>	When Windows clients attempt to update the dns, do they
>use the dns information which is either stored on the client or
>gotten via dhcp to determine which name servers to try to update
>or do they figure out the domain and do a SOA query against that
>domain?

I assume that they use the standard procedure:

    1) Query any DNS server for the SOA.
    2) Find the name of the master server from the SOA.
    3) Send DDNS updates to that master server.

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