A relatively "popular" solution I have seen for things like this is to have some small perl script that is launched instead of the app itself and that perl script does a site based lookup on the spot for the SRV record, tests to make sure the GC is responding, and then slams that into the configuration and then starts the app. That way if there is an issue, you simply restart the app and all is well. You can also set up a CNAME that points to GCs, but if you have a GCs out in sites, you will probably be setting up quite a few aliases. Then every site selects the proper alias for their site. That is seriously a pain to keep all synced up properly and is a likely place for maintenance to fall behind and cause issues unless someone automates those updates. The problem is simply that the app isn't SRV record aware, that isn't a Microsoft thing, that is an RFC thing. Not so evolved eh? But it is open source, someone could always quickly and easily add proper SRV lookup capability. <eg> joe -- O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition - http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm
_____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Hogenauer Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 12:25 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ActiveDir] Global Catalog /DNS Question Hi, I have a mix of Windows and Linux users. Most of my Linux users use Evolution as a mail client which needs to point to a GC for its configuration. My question is does anyone know a way to basically round robin a wildcard entry for those mail clients? So in case the DC/GC they're pointing to crashes half my users won't have to re-point their clients. Thanks in advance - Mike
