Re: Host Name vs. Domain Name
From: Kevin D. Goodknecht [MVP] (admin_at_nospam.WFTX.US)
Date: 04/20/04
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Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 17:33:03 -0500
In news:1d6201c42722$984dbfa0$a401280a@phx.gbl,
MLighter <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> posted a question
Then Kevin replied below:
> We have 2 win2k DNS servers and a separate WWW server.
> When I type just the domain name "domain.com" in the
> browser, it resolves to a site on one of the DNS servers
> rather than the WWW server that we would like it to
> resolve to.
>
> When a user types "www.domain.com" it resolves correctly
> to our web server. (The host header on the website is set
> up to use the domain name without the WWW).
>
> Any ideas what we need to change in DNS to get DNS to
> send a browser to the WWW server when a user
> types "domain.com" without the "www" in their browser?
>
> Would the SOA record have anything to do with that?
>
> Thanks for any assistance you can offer.
The domain name _must_ resolve to the Domain controllers for the Active
Directory domain. That is how Group policies are applied, group policies are
in the SYSVOL DFS share on all DCs at
\\domain.com\SYSVOL\domain.com\policies you should not alter this behavior.
I suggest that you setup websites on the DCs that will redirect domain.com
to www.domain.com. That is a much better solution and keeps members machines
from trying to find the DFS share on the web server.
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