Re: win2k server AD and DNS question

In news:JgLHe.1113$cE1.159931@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
tejlor <tejlor.nospam@xxxxxxxxx> posted this:
> Hello folks,
>
> I would like to get some knowlege from you Windows gurus :)
>
>
> Our win admins have setup 2 win2000 servers with AD and also internal
> DNS services are running on it. So far so good. The first server has
> IP
> 10.0.0.11 and the second one has IP 10.0.0.34. They also set the
> secondary IP address on the second server 10.0.0.12. I don't know why
> they need a secondary IP ...
>
> With the GPO the admins have force the DNS IP to our PC's. They are
> forcing the IP 10.0.0.11 and 10.0.0.12 as DNS servers. They are
> forcing
> the secondary IP address of second server as DNS server.
>
> Could we run in some DNS problems if DNS is running on
> secondary/virtual IP?

The fact that they are using the "secondary" IP address of the DNS server
does not make any difference. What could be a problem is if the Domain
Controller it is not properly configured with these two IP addresses.
Multi-homed Domain controllers are problematic and usually require extra
configuration to make sure the DC adn domain name resolve to the right IP
address, if it is truly multi-homed with two NICs. In which case, I would
imediately see a problem, both IPs are in the same subnet.

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