Design Considerations for an Active Directory Domain
An Active Directory domain requires integration with a visible DNS network. The DNS network must support retrieval of SRV records. Specifically, Active Directory requires SRV records with names like
_ldap._tcp.<domain_name>
where <domain_name> represents the DNS domain that the client is configured to query. The first issue to address when designing an Active Directory forest is the name space. How will it link in with an existing DNS name space? Elsolutions could have chosen to just use Active Directory and the Microsoft DNS servers and avoid the DNS interoperability issues. However, despite the uniform interoperability of Microsoft DNS and DHCP services, the lack of general support for ...
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