Windows is a pain. Just in case you didn't already know that for some reason... I rebuilt the BSSD domain as part of the forest today, since it wasn't worth the hastle of trying to get the inter-domain trusts going. Windows Server 2003 has inter-forest transitive trusts, but who knows what else. For 2000 I think I can create an effectively independent domain by carefully picking which services go where (and the automatic splits by sites helps too). While I was poking I set up shortcut transitive trusts to make the forest fully meshed which should effectively remove all reliability problems there (theoretically all but two domain controllers can be down and they'll still trust each other properly rather than needing to go through the roots). That they're transitive also helps since it provides paths for other domains too. Of course active directory is rather dependent on dynamic dns updates, especially for domain controllers. Of course servers never use DHCP, right? So why in the world would you put the DNS updater in the DHCP Client which would otherwise be completely disabled but needs to be running for just that? Oh well... I think everything's working, so hopefully tomorrow I can set up a test site and try cutting it off from the rest and see if it still works properly. Anyways, after I got home I did nothing except read a bit of tech news for a bit, and then played with dynamic DNS. Took about 2 minutes to set up bind and delegate a dynamic zone under one of my domains, and another couple minutes to have a perl script to update them. Now dyn.hackish.net is a dynamic zone. I should probably set up some sort of security (probably challenge/response) on that at some point, but it's open for now. I debated working on the bit bucket test a bit more, but never got to it. Maybe another night. Oh yea, and I discovered machines attempting to log into the administrator account every few seconds for a few hours last night. It's a lab machine in a group of others that's been acting funny, so we'll see what happens with that...