Authorizing Non Domain Computer to Access DNS?

[W]

On one of our domains, our UPS systems (which are realtime networked
computers that are not part of a Microsoft domain) are able to resolve DNS
using our domain controller. On another one of our domains, our UPS
systems attempt to resolve a hostname from DNS and get a server rejection
from the domain controller. We are guessing security must be tighter on
the second domain compared to the first.

What is required to have a Microsoft domain controller running on Windows
2003 reply to a DNS request that originates from a non-Microsoft OS, not in
the domain?

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W

[Ace Fekay [MCT]]

"W" <persis...@spamarrest.com> wrote in message
news:BOKdnV0JP7FF457W...@giganews.com...

Any machine (AD client or not), can use any DNS server as long as the DNS
server allows recursion. This is a default setting.

My feeling is the UPS is trying to register it's info into the zone, and the
zone is set to Secure updates only, which uses Kerberos to authenticate,
which only domain machines support.

The other thing I can think of is that the zone name to update into is not
configured properly on the UPS.

Or it's a combination of both the above.

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Ace

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