Re: PINGing the Active Directory Domain

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On Jun 30, 10:14 am, Ryan Hanisco
<RyanHani...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
JD,

As Jorge poins out there is a lot more going on in the background. As to
connecting to the domain, to put it in a nutshell, it will try the local site
as it sees it in the DNS. If that is busy, unavailable, or doesn't respond
within a certain timeframe, it will query the next DC in the DNS list. If
there is no site for a host, it will drop to the default-first-site.
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"JD" wrote:
On Jun 29, 9:18 pm, Ryan Hanisco
<RyanHani...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
JD,

Usually when doing this you will get a response from the DC holding the PDCe
role. This isn't something to worry about. If your workstations are finding
the correct site and they are _usually_ hitting th eright DC, you are fine.
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"JD" wrote:
I noticed that when I PING the domain name (PING OURCOMPANY.COM), a DC
on the other side of the world responds.. By what process is the
responding DC selected? Clearly not by site!

Thanks.

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in this case, the dc is not the PDCe.

So when I connect to \\domain.com\sysvol, am I connecting to the dc I
get when I ping the domain or a domain in my own site?

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So what you guys are saying is that although "PING domain.com" is not
site-aware, "dir \\domain.com\sysvol" IS site aware. Is there a way to
tell which DC I'm actually connecting to when I do that DIR?

Thanks for all that info!
<JD>

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