DNS: NETMASK ORDERING

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MJC said:
Will disabling this feature adversely affect Active Directory in any
way???

No, nothing to do with AD. It's designed to help with mutli name recrods
with different IP address, where it gives the client an answer based on teh
subnet the query came from. Nothing to do with AD. Hopefully you don't have
mutliple DCs with the same names, unless you have a mutlihomed DC, which in
that case, can cause issues anyway .....

Here's what it does (enabled by default):

Prioritizing local subnets:
from:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tr...atacenter/sag_DNS_imp_LocalSubnetPriority.asp
By default, the DNS Server service uses local subnet prioritizing as the
method for giving preference to IP addresses on the same network when a
client query resolves to a host name that is mapped to more than one IP
address. This feature requires that the client application attempt to
connect to the host using its closest (and typically fastest) IP address
available for connection.


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Ace

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Ace Fekay, MCSE 2000, MCSE+I, MCSA, MCT, MVP
Microsoft Windows MVP - Active Directory
 
Thank you for the information.
[MVP]<PleaseSubstituteMyActualFirstName&[email protected]> 2/12/2004
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MJC said:
Will disabling this feature adversely affect Active Directory in any
way???

No, nothing to do with AD. It's designed to help with mutli name recrods
with different IP address, where it gives the client an answer based on teh
subnet the query came from. Nothing to do with AD. Hopefully you don't have
mutliple DCs with the same names, unless you have a mutlihomed DC, which in
that case, can cause issues anyway .....

Here's what it does (enabled by default):

Prioritizing local subnets:
from:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechn
ol/windowsserver2003/proddocs/datacenter/sag_DNS_imp_LocalSubnetPriority.asp

By default, the DNS Server service uses local subnet prioritizing as the
method for giving preference to IP addresses on the same network when a
client query resolves to a host name that is mapped to more than one IP
address. This feature requires that the client application attempt to
connect to the host using its closest (and typically fastest) IP address
available for connection.


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Regards,
Ace

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This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties.

Ace Fekay, MCSE 2000, MCSE+I, MCSA, MCT, MVP
Microsoft Windows MVP - Active Directory
 
No prob...
;-)

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Regards,
Ace

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Ace Fekay, MCSE 2000, MCSE+I, MCSA, MCT, MVP
Microsoft Windows MVP - Active Directory
 
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