Re: non-microsoft DNS windows2003 (incognito)

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From: Ace Fekay [MVP] (PleaseSubstituteMyActualFirstName&LastNameHere_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/12/04 

Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 19:10:58 -0400

In news:%23wZnLoIgEHA.3348@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl,
eric romero <e.romero@cgnet.com> made a post then I commented below
> Hi Ace,
>
> Thanks for your reply is that the unique manual mod needed? I have
> several childdomains and a root , If a childomain creates a new DC+GC
> then this is the netlogon.dns I need to copy to all the DC which are
> also GC or to all the DCs in general?
>
> thx
> -eric

Actually NO. The netlogon.dns file is unique to each DC, whether a GC or
not. The netlogon service takes that data that it finds it its own AD
database on that specific server and the data about itself (such as whether
it is a GC itself or not) and registers that data into the zone name
specified in the Primary DNS Suffix. That is why the suffix, the zone and
the AD name must match. To do it manually you need to go to each individual
server and get this file and manually take the data out of each file and put
it into the zone. SOme of it is overlap, some of it is not. Each domain also
has it's own GUID id. So you just cannot copy from one to all.

See what I mean? 

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