Heuristics for finding a Win2K domain controller ...

[Richard Sharpe]

On Fri, 3 May 2002, Norbert Püschel wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> WINS is only used for backward compatibility in Win2K. The DCs are found
> via their

My original problem was that I did not have WINS properly configured ...

> DNS entries; they have entries of type SRV in _msdcs.your.domain, where
> your.domain is
> your DNS domain _and_ your W2K-domain.
> 
> Your DNS must support dynamic DNS for this to work. W2Ks DNS-server does
> this, as does BIND 8/9.

Seems like I can use dig to retrieve the entries gc._msdcs.<domain> and 
get back the list of addresses that the PDC? uses?

> Hope this helps.
> 
> Bye,
>   Norbert 
> 
> Richard Sharpe schrieb:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Does anyone know any heuristics for finding a Win2K Domain controller?
> > 
> > WINS does not seem to work the same way as NT4 ...
> > 
> > Regards
> > -----
> > Richard Sharpe, rsharpe at ns.aus.com, rsharpe at samba.org,
> > sharpe at ethereal.com
> 

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