How does NT choose a DC?

[Richard Sharpe]

At 06:54 AM 5/11/00 +1000, Paul J Collins wrote:
>>>>>> "Luke" == Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at samba.org> writes:
>
>    Luke> now, is anyone curious as to _why_ it sometimes takes 30
>    Luke> seconds to time-out if your DC can't be found?
>
>There is a good doc on the NT DC location process here and how to hack
>it here: 
>
>http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q181/1/71.ASP?LN=EN-US&SD=
gn&FR=0
>
>There seems to be a form of DC location called H-node that will
>broadcast if WINS fails to give it some DCs.  The 30 secs is probably
>the default timeout.  I saw a situation like this today on a machine
>that had a bogus WINS address for our primary domain.

Hmmm, seems to be some confusion re NBNS, which can be B-node, P-node,
H-node and M-node, and DC location, which, IMHO, uses NBNS.

>Then there is M-node, which broadcasts first but does not wait for the
>full timeout.  In all there are about 5 different location mechanisms
>mentioned in that article.
>
>Paul.
>
>-- 
>Paul Collins <sneakums at eircom.net> - - - - - [ A&P,a&f ]


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