Anyone have any experience running a W2K domain using bind 9 for the DNS server? I just set this up on my home network (need to test a project in a M$ "security" environment) and was curious if I set the zone up correctly in bind. I'm not a bind or DNS expert (in fact I'm far from it, I probably know just about enough to get myself in major trouble) so I figured I'd ask here since some of you deal with stuff like this daily.
After ActiveDirectory install on the 2K server I just blindly grabbed the netlogon.dns file the install generated and included it in my existing bind zone file for my local domain. Was having problems with an XP machine: domain logon was taking like 3-5 mins and it would "lose" the network after a while (would not be able to browse machines/shares on the network). After a while I finally took a closer look at the netlogon.dns file and found some weird stuff: 1) the A record was 2Kmachine.mydomain.com (was giving me some weird results - 2Kmachine.mydomain.com and 2Kmachine.mydomain.com.mydomain.com both resolved to 2Kmachine's ip address), 2) all the SRV records had 2Kmachine.2Kmachine.mydomain.com (which doesn't exist). I changed the A record to be just 2Kmachine and that cleared up the weird resolve issue, I also changed all of the SRV records to be 2Kmachine.mydomain.com. The logon now takes about 1 min and I don't appear to be "losing" the network (it's only been 1 day since I made the change but it was "loosing" the network every few hours) - was curious if I set this up correctly - anyone know if this is correct? It almost seems like the XP box couldn't resolve the domain info using the values from DNS during the logon so it did a "brute force" lookup for the DC and then cached what it found. When it was time to renew it grabbed the bogus stuff from DNS and stopped working. Thanks, James -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20040408/df926721/attachment.htm From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Apr 8 09:26:45 2004 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richards Jr, Edward C.) Date: Thu Apr 8 09:25:08 2004 Subject: [brlug-general] Danix - Knoppix remix Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cleve, I am downloading the iso right now. If anyone else is interested, the iso can be found here http://danix.hladnov.osu.cz/ . Since the web page is Czech and it seems that the translation to English doesn't work properly, I poked around till I found the download page. With regard to speed, I suspect that Danix/Knoppix 3.4 is booting kernel 2.6 (boot with "knoppix26 lang=us") and is probably also running KDE 3.2.X which, from what I have read, each of these effect a significant speed improvement and together effect a substantial speed improvement. There is an ongoing thread on the Xandros forum regarding upgrading Xandros 2.0 kernel 2.4.24 to the 2.6 kernel and upgrading KDE to KDE 3.2. That thread can be found here: http://forums.xandros.com/viewtopic.php?t=5929&highlight=kernel+2+6. However, be forewarned that doing so WILL break some of the nice things that makes Xandros what it is. Having said that, I intend to try it myself and may do so over the weekend. If you do intend t! o try it,. BACK UP, BACK UP, and read the forum discussion in its entirety, or do like I do and use a drive bay and play on a "disposable" installation. Ed -----Original Message----- From: Cleve Allison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 9:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [brlug-general] Danix - Knoppix remix Has anyone else tried out Danix? If not then let me tell ya 'bout it. Its another Knoppix remix but based on the 3.4 cd. Fast, fast, fast........boot with "knoppix26 lang=us" Ummm, did I mention that its fast. My home pc is a 700mhz Duron with 512MB. I'm dual-booted with Xandros 2.0 Business Edition as primary and WinXP as secondary. Maybe I'm going crazy here but this live cd distribution HAS to be faster than either WinXP or Xandros 2.0 running from the harddrive. INCredible. I'm impressed.........give it a spin and let me know if everyone has a similar experience. cleve _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net This email, including any attached files, may contain confidential and privileged information. Any review, use, distribution or disclosure of included information by unintended recipients is strictly prohibited. If you are not a named recipient or authorized to receive and / or act on information sent to a named recipient, or have reason to believe you are not or should not be one of the named recipients, please notify sender accordingly by reply email and delete all copies of this message prior to forwarding, copying or otherwise reproducing this message or attachments thereto. For information regarding the export control status of items discussed in this document, please refer to the project control list. Thank you.
