Steve Langasek schrieb: > > On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 07:50:35AM +0200, Norbert Püschel wrote: > > > WINS is only used for backward compatibility in Win2K. The DCs are found > > via their > > DNS entries; they have entries of type SRV in _msdcs.your.domain, where > > your.domain is > > your DNS domain _and_ your W2K-domain. > > > Your DNS must support dynamic DNS for this to work. W2Ks DNS-server does > > this, as does BIND 8/9. > > Is dynamic DNS support absolutely /necessary/? I.e., will a W2K DC fail
Yes. > to provide services correctly if it can't register the DNS name, in the > same way than an NT PDC can be DoS'ed if there is already a PDC > registered with the WINS server? I'm personally not particularly keen > on the idea of configuring dynDNS support just for AD -- though happily, > I'm pretty sure I can count on this not being a requirement for Samba > 3.0. > > Steve Langasek > postmodern programmer There is no way you can avoid DDNS if you want to use AD. None. W2K-Clients use DNS to find their servers. (You could make static DNS entries, but this would not be very admin-friendly...) Bye, Norbert