RE: [ActiveDir] DC location queries

[Grillenmeier, Guido]

Title: DC location queries

that default first site would only be used when promoting new DCs to a domain if that DC has an IP address that's not defined for any subnet/site.  Naturally, I would fire anyone who even tries to promote a DC without doing the necessary prep-work..., so you should never run into the situation to require the default first site.

 

As far as I recall from testing a very loooong time ago in Win2000, if the default first site is renamed or removed, a newly promoted DC (with an IP address for a non-defined subnet) will be added to some random site - I'd have to test this again in 2003, if this mechanism still applies.

 

/Guido

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe
Sent: Freitag, 15. April 2005 01:33
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] DC location queries

1. Yes.

2. Yes

3. No.

 

Basically clients go through this process

 

A. Determine site of client

B.  Retrieve list of DCs registered for site, this could be DCs in the site or other sites covering that site.

C. If none available, retrieve list of DCs for domain

 

Your case 3 involves a client in an undefined subnet or a subnet not linked to a site. In that case, the site will be null for that client and it will jump straight to C.

 

   joe

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ruston, Neil
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 10:07 AM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: [ActiveDir] DC location queries

I would like to ask for confirmation relating to the below scenarios and DC location:

1. Client in site with no DCs installed
Client receives list of DCs which have registered SRV records on behalf of that site

2. Client in site with a DC but that DC is unavailable
Client requests list of DCs registered at the domain level

3. Client in unknown site
Client receives list of DCs associated with the defaultFirstNameSite

We have only hub sites register as per point 2 and the default site has been renamed. How do I determine which site has assumed the role of the default site?

Thanks,
neil

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