I'd think that it would be considered expected behavior - I don't believe
one forest would have a concept of the other's sites and subnets.

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Roger Seielstad
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> Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 9:00 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Unmapped IP Subnets in Another AD Forest
> 
> I agree...my question is whether this is expected behavior or 
> not.  As a very good Microsoft engineer once told me, "we 
> don't want to cover up evil".  If AD is acting as expected, 
> then you're right and we'll handle it.  If not, then it would 
> be good to know that as well.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Roger Seielstad
> Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 10:03 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Unmapped IP Subnets in Another AD Forest
> 
> It strikes me like the best way to handle that is to provide 
> correct site and subnet mappings across both (all) forests - 
> especially when there are cross forest processes happening.
> 
> --------
> Roger Seielstad
> E-mail Geek 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of 
> Rachui, Scott
> > Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 6:20 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: [ActiveDir] Unmapped IP Subnets in Another AD Forest
> > 
> > I have an odd problem.  I checked one of our AD 2000 (SP4) forests 
> > today.  It had a flurry of Event ID 5778s as shown below:
> > 
> > Event Type: Information
> > Event Source:       NETLOGON
> > Event Category:     None
> > Event ID:   5778
> > Date:               4/4/2005
> > Time:               9:14:17 PM
> > User:               N/A
> > Computer:   <Domain Controller>
> > Description:
> > '<Computer Name>' tried to determine its site by looking up its IP 
> > address ('<IP Address>') in the Configuration\Sites\Subnets 
> container 
> > in the DS.  No subnet matched the IP address.  Consider adding a 
> > subnet object for this IP address.
> > 
> > The only problem was that in some cases, the computers mentioned in 
> > the events were authenticating to another forest.  There is a 2-way 
> > trust between Forest A and Forest B.  The user and computer 
> are both 
> > in Forest A, with only resources in Forest B (a migration is 
> > underway).
> > 
> > My understanding of unmapped subnets is that DNS will give you a 
> > random list of DCs and you'll query them to find you're 
> optimal site.  
> > If your IP Address is unmapped, you'll use whichever DC 
> replies first.  
> > But you'll also re-query AD every 15 minutes until your IP 
> Subnet is 
> > defined and you are using AD optimally.
> > 
> > Now if a computer is authenticating to Forest A and then only 
> > accessing resources in Forest B, why would he post 5778 events just 
> > because his IP Subnet from Forest A isn't also defined in 
> Forest B?  
> > This seems wrong to me, somehow.  But I thought I'd ask the 
> experts on 
> > this alias to see if you had any thoughts.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance for your thoughts and help.
> > 
> > Scott
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