[Samba] testing DNS entries on DC joins

[Marc Muehlfeld]

Hello Bob,

Am 24.02.2015 um 00:09 schrieb Bob of Donelson Trophy:
> I noticed that my first DC is all small case letters in the FQDN and the
> second DC is partially capitalized FQDN. So far the testing says it
> doesn't matter . . . do I care about caps or not? What is the correct
> way? 
> 
> As this is my test environment I do not care but in my production
> environment, well . . . will this tiny detail become an issue? The
> clients are micro$oft machines after all! Will the clients care? 


No.

DNS names are case insensitive:
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4343.txt

If you're looking for an MS statement about this: :-)
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/909264/en
"...DNS is not case-sensitive..."


Regards,
Marc