[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
Re: [NTSysADM] Is this domain change, or just DNS play?
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
Re: [NTSysADM] Is this domain change, or just DNS play?
LOL *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker* **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…*** On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 12:23 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 9:10 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: 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? You do not need to create a new Active Directory (sub)domain. You don't even need to create a new DNS zone of authority. Just create A resource records for the hostX names. You don't even need to have any resource records for ourdepartment.internaldomain.local. at all. (FYI: Technically all names in DNS are domain names. Even host1.ourdepartment.internaldomain.local. with just an A record is still a domain name. This usually doesn't matter, but as a DNS weenie I have to remark on this, or I'll lose my membership in the DNS Weenie Club. (I get 10% off all my SOA records.)) -- Ben
Re: [NTSysADM] Is this domain change, or just DNS play?
I'll lose my membership in the DNS Weenie Club. Can you have concurrent membership in the DNSWC and DNRC? That would be cool :-] -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Ben Scott Sent: Friday, September 20, 2013 9:23 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [spam] [dkim-failure] Re: [NTSysADM] Is this domain change, or just DNS play? On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 9:10 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: 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? You do not need to create a new Active Directory (sub)domain. You don't even need to create a new DNS zone of authority. Just create A resource records for the hostX names. You don't even need to have any resource records for ourdepartment.internaldomain.local. at all. (FYI: Technically all names in DNS are domain names. Even host1.ourdepartment.internaldomain.local. with just an A record is still a domain name. This usually doesn't matter, but as a DNS weenie I have to remark on this, or I'll lose my membership in the DNS Weenie Club. (I get 10% off all my SOA records.)) -- Ben PGE is committed to protecting our customers' privacy. To learn more, please visit http://www.pge.com/about/company/privacy/customer/
