Package: base Severity: important This Debian Squeeze server is located inside a Windows network, and it's DNS servers in resolv.conf are set to Domain Controllers which are also DNS servers.
In this setup, a DNS lookup for gc._msdcs.<domain> correctly returns the IP addresses of the Global Catalog servers on the network. When trying to communicate via these special DNS names however, things do not work. For example: ping gc._msdcs.<domain> returns unknown host. Also, trying to communicate using the ldap protocol using the same DNS name does not work. As soon as I use just ping <domain> or ldap to just <domain> (which returns all DNS servers in the domain), it works fine. This works for us, but only because all our DCs are also GCs adn DNS servers. I checked and re-checked, and nslookup gc._msdcs.<domain> always returns the correct results. I've also checked using both ping and ldap on a windows machine and that works perfectly using gc._msdcs.<domain>. Lastly, I've tried the same tests on another Debain Squeeze server and the results fail in exacatly the same manner as this one. I wonder if it's something to do with the underscore? Thanks - Lawrence -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
