Tom, Unless the DC has the DNS Service installed & configured, the server will not resolve DNS requests for the clients. To resolve internet addresses the DNS server has to either be configured with the internet root DNS servers, or has to forward to an external DNS Server that will do the recursive lookup for you.
Noah -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 10:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] AD-Integrated DNS Question AD-Integrated DNS Question If one is running Active Directory-integrated DNS then the SRV Resource Records are replicated to all the DCs in the domain. This of course is a well documented W2K fact. But this does not mean that all of the DCs are full-fledged DNS Servers...does it? In planning a W2K rollout would one account for the needed overhead of installing DNS services on certain DCs in just the same way that one would plan for DNS availability on any kind of a network...W2K or not? In assigning the preferred DNS server (via DHCP) for clients at various locations I need to have a local DNS installation at each site, so that the clients can access Internet hosts by sending recursive queries. Pretty basic stuff. OK, let's call a DC that does not explicitly have DNS services installed on it a "stripped down" DC. It's my understanding that a "stripped down" AD-Integrated DC will supply the W2K/XP client with internal services via the replicated DNS Resource Records it contains in AD in much the same way that WINS did on NT nets; but when that same client needs recursive lookups for Internet hosts it needs a bona fide DNS Server for that. In this case the "stripped down" DC can not fulfill this role unless the DNS services were installed. Is this correct thinking? Thanks, Tom Kasmir List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/