JSI Tip 2643. Tweaking the BINL service.
July 25, 2000
When you run Risetup.exe, the BINL (Boot Information Negotiation Layer) service is installed.
The BINL service answers clients, validates and passes client information to/from the server. For performance or troubleshooting, you may wish to tweak the following values at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystemCurrrentControlSetServicesBinlsvc, but you must first create the Binlsvc key using Regedt32:
Value Name | Type | Default | D e s c r i p t i o n |
---|---|---|---|
Port | REG_DWORD | 4011 | The standard port that the PXE client uses. |
LdapOptReferrals | REG_DWORD | 0 | If set to 1, BINL allows referrals when connecting to a nonglobal catalog. |
ResponseDelay | REG_DWORD | 0 | The number of seconds to wait to respond to a client when BINL can't find an account, so other servers that may own the account can respond first. |
LdapTimeout | REG_DWORD | 30 | The timeout in seconds for LDAP commands. A value of 0 is treated as .5 seconds. |
CacheExpire | REG_DWORD | 25000 | The number of milliseconds that BINL waits until it expires DS cache entries. |
CacheMaxCount | REG_DWORD | 250 | The maximun number of DS entries to cache. Once exceeded, performance will suffer. |
DefaultServer | REG_SZ | The FQDN of the DS server. When DefaultServer is not present, the computer uses its' known server. | |
DefaultGCServer | REG_SZ | The FQDN of the DS global catalog. When not present, the computer uses its' known server. | |
ClientTimeout | REG_DWORD | 900 | The number of seconds of inactivity before the server removes a client entry from the cache. |
ScavengerSleep | REG_DWORD | 60 | The number of seconds between scavenger runs. |
UpdateParameterPoll | REG_DWORD | 14400 | The number of seconds between complete re-reads of all the BINL parameters. |
MaxDSErrorsToLog | REG_DWORD | 10 | How many LDAP errors are logged within the DSErrorInterval. If exceeded, a generic summary error is logged. |
DSErrorInterval | REG_DWORD | 10 | The number of minutes for the MaxDSErrorsToLog entry. |
AssignNewClientsToServer | REG_DWORD | 0 | A value of 1 secifies that new clients should be assigned to a 'server', preventing other servers from responding. |
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