Re: Zone Setup Question

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From: Roger Abell (mvpNOSpam_at_asu.edu)
Date: 05/15/04 

Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 04:40:12 -0700

Hi Kevin,

I am curious about your statement
" This record is required by the domain controller and
itmust point to the IP address(es) on all domain controllers
that have File sharing enabled. Changing this behavior will
cause many problems and may cause replication to fail."

Things change, and so you may be right on with that, but
the last time I ran this up the flagpole, the word that came
back from the DNS people at Redmond was that those RRs
were actually not used for anything by Windows machines. 

-- 
Roger Abell
Microsoft MVP (Windows Server System: Security)
MCSE (W2k3,W2k,Nt4)  MCDBA
"Kevin D. Goodknecht [MVP]" <admin@nospam.WFTX.US> wrote in message
news:ebM6nUeOEHA.3044@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> In news:d28b01c439c0$6ecc66d0$a601280a@phx.gbl,
> qwerty <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> posted a question
> Then Kevin replied below:
> > Hello:
> >
> > I have an existing zone in my internal DNS.  I have an A
> > record that points to my website (which is hosted by an
> > external ISP).  From the outside world I am able to go to
> > my site without entering the WWW.  How do I set this up in
> > my internal zone?  I have tried to leave teh host name
> > blank but that does not work.
> >
> > I am using Windows 2003 DNS.
> >
> > Thanks for your help.
>
> Is this an Active Directory Domain?
> Is the AD Domain name the same domain name as the website domain?
>
> This does require a host record leaving the host name field blank, but
> Domain controllers will register blank records for every IP address on the
> domain controller(s) This record is required by the domain controller and
it
> must point to the IP address(es) on all domain controllers that have File
> sharing enabled. Changing this behavior will cause many problems and may
> cause replication to fail. The workaround is to use IIS on the DCs to
> redirect a site at domain.com to www.domain.com.
>
> If this is not an AD domain create a host record leave the name field
blank
> and give it the IP of the website. When it barks at you saying (same as
> parent folder) is not a valid host name click OK to create the record
> anyway. Run ipconfig /flushdns to clear negative records from the DNScache
> before try to access the site.
>
>
> -- 
> Best regards,
> Kevin D4 Dad Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]
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