Windows 2000 server records in DNS
Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Wed Jul 11 11:13:32 UTC 2001
> If I remove the "gc._msdcs.sonytel.be. IN A 10.34.0.17" line everything gets
> accepted (but it still doesn't work since apparently this line is crucial for
> Windows).
>
> Any ideas why the "owner name" is invalid?
Because "gc._msdcs.sonytel.be" is not a valid hostname, "_" is
illegal in a hostname. The usual solution is to make
"_msdcs.sonytel.be" a seperate zone and turn off the checks
for that zone (check-names ignore). The extended solution
is to make "_sites.sonytel.be", "_tcp.sonytel.be" and
"_udp.sonytel.be" seperate zones as well and turn on dynamic
updates for all four zones.
Microsoft did the right thing by calling the zone "_msdcs" as
that cannot clash with any legal hostname. Unforunately they
then put a A record underneath.
Mark
>
> Note: I'm running bind 8.2.3
>
> thanks in advance,
>
> Nico
>
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