How WindowsXX Systems know who to try to Update
Barry Finkel
b19141 at achilles.ctd.anl.gov
Wed Jul 31 16:22:02 UTC 2002
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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Barry S. Finkel
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