Re: Any way to trick DNS?
- From: "Ace Fekay [MVP]" <PleaseSubstituteMyActualFirstName&LastNameHere@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 19:19:47 -0500
In news:DC939C4F-23A7-410C-9C98-565B7AAB6CD1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
km <km@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> made this post, which I then commented
about below:
> We have a zone called company.com that is AD integrated. That zone
> has a record called hostname.company.com that replicates to every DC
> in the domain.
>
> In one particular site, we would like this record to resolve to a
> different IP address.
> Ie, in Site A & B hostname.company.com points to 1.2.3.4. In Site C
> hostname.company.com points to 5.6.7.8. Since it's AD integrated, we
> can't change the record in Site C- as it will replicate to the other
> sites and break apps in those sites.
>
> Can we force the DNS server in Site C to search a child domain first
> before resolving names? Ie, child.company.com...and then in
> child.company.com we put hostname.child.company.com and point it to
> 5.6.7.8...and force the DNS server in Site C to query that domain
> first? So it will resovle to
> 5.6.7.8...and all other DNS servers will still only query company.com
> and resolve it to 1.2.3.4? If that is the only host in that DNS
> domain...it will still resolve everything else via recursion...
>
> I know that is confusing...but can't think of any other way to do it
> in the current environment.
In this case, no you cannot. However, for that *specific* machine that needs
that "other" IP, you can create a hosts file entry to satisfy that.
btw- Why does it need a different IP?
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