You’re correct in your surmise. I always ask why the change is wanted though as there may be a better way to accomplish the desired goal. I don’t tell developers how to write code, they don’t tell me how to run the environment. As a general rule I don’t let non-admins create the solution; give me the desired end result and I’ll craft the solution. Said as nicely and cooperatively as possible, of course.
From: David Lum Sent: Friday, September 20, 2013 8:10 AM To: NTSysADM@lists.myITforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] Is this domain change, or just DNS play? We have a development department that wants to do what seems to me to just be DNS hoky-poky. We have and internal domain structure of internaldomain.local, and this group is asking for DNS entries of host1.ourdepartment.internaldomain.local, host2.ourdepartment.internaldomain.local , etc. We don’t have to create an actual subdomain to make those kind of DNS entries work, do we? Just create a new DNS zone? Specifically the request is “we want these to point to the same IP address” Host2.ourdepartment.internaldomain.local Host2.ourdepartment.internaldomain.local Host1.ourdepartment.internaldomain.local It just doesn’t feel like we’d need to stand up an actual domain in the forest to achieve that… David Lum Sr. Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764
