There may be certain circumstances whereby you do not wish to register the host (A) record of a domain controller. An example of one of these circumstances could be a web server registering the same name as the name of an Active Directory domain; in this scenario, you would not want non-web servers registering host records for this name. The following registry value is used to enable or disable this behaviour:
DnsRegisterARecords [REG_DWORD]
This value is set under the following key:
HKLM\ System\ CurrentControlSet\ Services\ Netlogon\ Parameters
The value of zero (0) disables the ability of netlogon to register host records in DNS; a value of one (1) enables this behaviour.
If the key does not exist you will need to create it. To do this, right-click in the empty space in the right-hand pane (REGEDIT) and choose New\ DWord Value. Enter the name DnsRegisterARecords as the value, and zero (0) as the data.
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Author: Paul WilliamsDate: 09-11-2004
Version: 2.0
Last updated: 25-07-2007
Last updated by: Paul Williams
