[DHCP] RE: Determining request

[Glen R. J. Neff]

Rudy Zijlstra wrote:
> Jonathan Lassoff wrote:
>>> Your workstations should have no problem finding the servers across subnets
>>> using DNS.
>> DNS can work for Active Directory I believe, but what if the users want
>> to use or want their "Network Neighborhood" stuff to work?
>> Sadly, I don't believe this uses DNS.
> That uses WINS, and WINS can handle multiple subnets. I'm doing that 
> with samba based servers and different subnets in different physical 
> locations. Works. Windows simply browses. It will help if DNS is setup 
> correctly though.

WINS is as obsolete as NT4.  Active Directory relies on Dynamic-DNS, 
especially for clients on a different subnet than the resources they're 
trying to reach.

Bind works swimmingly with AD.  You need to allow the zone to update via 
IP or subnet.  At a minimum you need to include the domain controllers 
and your DHCP server, if you want it doing the registration.  If you 
want to allow all clients to self-register, then you need to allow the 
subnets the clients are on.

-G

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