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
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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
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