From: "Geo" 

"John Cuccia"  wrote in message
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> >I remember there were some other issues as well, like you had to upgrade
the
> >DNS server to W2K before you modified the domain so that the new W2K PDC
> >could autocreate the DNS entries it needed or something along those
lines.
> >The machine can't autoregister with an NT4 dns server can it?
>
> I don't know, my AD experience is with DNS running on W2K or W2K3
> servers.   According to MS the DNS server must support RFC 2052 and
> RFC 2136.  They specifically mention W2K/W2K3 DNS and BIND 8.1.2 or
> later.

That may be for specific RR types that aren't supported in NT4's dns and
not for the autoregistration feature. I would imagine it's possible to
manually enter the special dns records but that would be a waste of time
imo compared to just running dns on a W2K box.

Geo.

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