Yeah - uncheck the checkboxes that say "Register this connection in DNS" on the TCP/IP properties of the backup NIC's .
-------------------------------------------------------------- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. > -----Original Message----- > From: Carlos Tronco [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 3:38 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [ActiveDir] Is it possible to Disable GC > registration on a particular NIC? > > Here's the situation. We've got a number of W2K DCs that are > Compaq DL360's > with dual NICs. Each one of them has a "production" interface that is > reachable by clients. The second interface has a presence on > a non-routable > network that is used exclusively for backups. Since the DC sees both > interfaces, both of them get registered in our BIND based > DNS. So with 8 DCs > we end up with 16 GC entries registered, 8 of which aren't > reachable by > client workstations. Everything works, but we are worried > more about long > term performance of things like Exchange/outlook. Is there > any way to keep > these records from being registered for a particular NIC? My > other option is > to make the zones static and manually enter the appropriate > records, but I'd > rather not have to do that if there's an easier solution. > > TIA > > -cars > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------- > --------- > |Carlos Tronco | There are only 10 kinds of people in > the world | > |[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Those that understand binary, and > those that | > |MCSE/CDP | don't > | > -------------------------------------------------------------- > --------- > http://www.lostroncos.org/~cars > > > 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/
