>Amazing! So as a malicious employee, all I have to do is run a DHCP >server that dishes out host names with the adress leases and then AD >will be ruined as DNS records will be wrong and computers won't match >their accounts in AD? Of course not for cripes sakes, the op doesn't realize his windows xp box was named as per the hostname he desires, its merely the DNS suffix that can be assigned, ad would break if the hostname changed...