Best way/place to manually add DNS entries
Mike Wall
We're migrating over to a Windows 2003 domain, and I've been having to
manually create entries for our Linux boxes in the DNS.
I've been adding these to the root of the domain (under Forest lookup zones)
as Hosts (A). Is this the best place to put them?
Any help would be great. Thanks!
Herb Martin
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> Hi all,
>
> We're migrating over to a Windows 2003 domain, and I've been having to
> manually create entries for our Linux boxes in the DNS.
That's pretty normal.
> I've been adding these to the root of the domain (under Forest lookup
> zones) as Hosts (A). Is this the best place to put them?
Well, the ONLY PROPER place to put them is in the ZONE where
they belong.
If a machine is part of the root domain/zone (in the minds of the
admin) OR needs to be resolvable in another domain/zone then
it needs to appear there.
For Windows machines, being in an AD Domain is part of the
identity of the machine (it actually has an account and authenticates)
but for Unix machines and for general purposes (e.g., web servers)
the name can and may be in multiple or arbitrary zones.
Arbitrary here means wherever the Admins want it to appear or
where they expect the users to seek it out.
> Any help would be great. Thanks!
Domain membership is not (usually) an issue for Unix machines,
but contacting those machines by appropriate full DNS names
probably is important -- that's the zone(s) where the name
much appear (for all practical purposes.)
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si via WinServerKB.com
Thats the right place to add the host records, if you need to resolve from ip
address to name of host (reverse lookup), as opposed to the usual name to IP
of host(forward lookup) you will need to create the appropriate PTR record
pointing IP to name.
HTH
Si
MCDST MCP A+
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simonwhyley via WinServerKB.com
Posted at same time (ish) didnt see Herb's post......
Si
si wrote:
>Hi
>
>Thats the right place to add the host records, if you need to resolve from ip
>address to name of host (reverse lookup), as opposed to the usual name to IP
>of host(forward lookup) you will need to create the appropriate PTR record
>pointing IP to name.
>
>HTH
>
>Si
>MCDST MCP A+
>
>ll wrote:
>>Hi all,
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