If no Domain Controllers are available within a site, will clients failover to Domain Controllers in the closest available site?
No. Although you might expect this to be the case, if a client can’t find a DC in its site, it will then try to find any DC in its domain, regardless of site, based on the weights and priorities associated with the DCs’ locator records in DNS. Site link cost doesn’t enter into the process.Clients generally always try to use a DC in their own site. The DNS query for this is:_ldap._tcp.
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