See the Distributed Systems Guide of the W2K Server Resource Kit. The topic
in Chapter 3 titled "Mapping IP Addresses to Site Names" (page 163 in my
book) says:

"NetLogon looks up the client UP address in its subnet-to-site mapping table
by finding the subnet object that _most closely matches_ the client IP
address ..."

FWIW the mapping table is an in-memory structure and searching it is likely
to a very efficient operation.

-gil

Gil Kirkpatrick
CTO, NetPro


-----Original Message-----
From: Hagberg Lars [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 3:54 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] overlapping IP space in AD sites?


Hi

It should work; based on my experience AD selects the smallest subnet that
covers the IP address IP addresses 10.10.0.1 - 10.10.255.254 is site 1
except for 10.10.88.1 - 126  that is in site 2 in your example

Have anybody seen any documentation about this?

//Best Regards Lars


-----Original Message-----
From: Thommes, Michael M. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: den 27 augusti 2003 17:10
To: Active Directory Mailing List (E-mail)
Subject: [ActiveDir] overlapping IP space in AD sites?

Hi,
   We have a pretty complex IP structure with various types of access. As we
develop AD sites for low bandwidth connected remote offices, I was wondering
how AD handles site subnet definitions that might overlap one another.  For
example:

10.10.0.0/16 = Site 1
10.10.88.0/25 = Site 2

The AD Sites and Services mmc allows (doesn't complain) about overlapping
subnets.  As always, any comments or experiences in this area are
appreciated!

Mike Thommes
Argonne National Laboratory
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