SYMPTOMS
When you create a new site, you may have a situation where at the time you created the site it did not contain domain controllers. The following event is displayed in Event Viewer:
Event Type: Information
Event Source: NETLOGON
Event Category: None
Event ID: 5784
Date: 3/16/2000
Time: 2:07:47 PM
User: N/A
Computer: DCN1
Description:
Site 'TestSite' does not have any Domain Controllers for domain 'ROOT'. Domain Controllers in site 'Site1' have been automatically selected to cover site 'TestSite' based on configured Directory Server replication costs.
This is expected behavior and allows domain controllers from other sites to function as domain controllers for your newly created site, based on the most efficient cost figure.
After you bring up a domain controller in your newly created site, the following event is logged on the domain controller that was temporarily covering your newly created site:
Event Type: Information
Event Source: NETLOGON
Event Category: None
Event ID: 5785
Date: 3/16/2000
Time: 2:12:49 PM
User: N/A
Computer: DCN1
Description:
This Domain Controller no longer automatically covers site 'TestSite'.
This event notifies you that the new domain controller that you just brought up in your new site is now identified as the domain controller for the new site. However, if you review the DNS SRV records, the domain controller in the other site that was temporarily covering your new site is still listed as a domain controller in your newly created site.