Re: cannot ping my domain

From: Ace Fekay [MVP] (PleaseSubstituteMyActualFirstName&LastNameHere_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/02/04

  • Next message: Herb Martin: "Re: cannot ping my domain" 
    Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 02:28:44 -0400

    In news:eUg2bnDqEHA.1272@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl,
    Herb Martin <news@LearnQuick.com> made a post then I commented below

    >
    > Yes, but just telling him to do it blindly when he
    > might-have/likely-has Active Directory is not helping him fully.
    >
    > He is going to get unreliable results if this is an internal DNS
    > supporting an AD domain as the DCs also do what you suggest
    > and with round robin he will be woundering why it works
    > sometimes (unless he has "netmask ordering" enabled and it
    > never works the way you indicated.)
    >
    > Adding the Host record with the same name as the domain/zone
    > will work IF there is no conflict with other hosts, e.g, for external
    > client access only it usually works fine.
    >
    > All DCs register this in internal DNS autmotically and for
    > internal users it is probably just best to teach them to use
    > www.whatever.com.
    >

    Just to add, that blank record registered by all DCs is called the
    LdapIpAddress, which can be altered by a reg entry under the netlogon key.
    If he does have AD, then he needs to alter this on each DC.

    He can also circumvent this by configuring the default website on each DC
    with a redirect to www.domain.com, which of course will resolve to the www
    record under domain.com that he previously created. 

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