Re: DHCP vs. GPO

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From: ptwilliams (ptw2001_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/21/05 

Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 22:37:21 -0000

Ha ha!! I'm mistaken, which is great news!!!

I'm thinking of a different option. There's an option to set the Primary
DNS Suffix through GPO. I thought you were referring to this one. You must
be using an option that allows you to set the DNS Suffix Search list...which
is great, because we do this via script as DHCP can't do it and we were
unaware there was an option to do this via GPO (although in several of our
environments it wouldn't matter as they're NT).

Anyway, the DHCP option is connection specific suffix -this is a different
thing. You need to either leave the Primary as is (it's set when you join
the domain) or set it via GPO. Also use the GPO options that you're talking
about (and post the path here, so I don't waste twenty minutes looking for
it;-)

The suffix search list is what you use when you have multiple non-contiguous
namespaces. Instead of appending the domain or connection-specific ones,
you append these in order. So you would try host.first-name.com then
host.second-name.com, etc.

Hope that clears things up, you've made my day! 

-- 
Paul Williams
http://www.msresource.net/
http://forums.msresource.net/

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