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The
SOA doesn't have to exist in the domain in question. Put another way, the SOA
for domain.com doesn't have to be soa.domain.com, it could be
soa.someotherdomain.com
For
instance, look at my company's primary domain (inovis.com) -
bash-2.04$ dig in soa inovis.com
;
<<>> DiG 9.1.2 <<>> in soa inovis.com
;; global
options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode:
QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 39141
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1,
AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;;
QUESTION
SECTION:
;inovis.com.
IN SOA
;;
ANSWER
SECTION:
inovis.com.
1800 IN
SOA ns1.inovisinc.net. hostmaster.inovisinc.net.
2003121401 1800 600 604800 1800
The
SOA record for inovis.com lives in inovisinc.net. Therefore, it doesn't
necessarily make sense for the SOA to automatically populate with the suffix of
the domain in which it exists.
Roger
--------------------------------------------------------------
Roger D. Seielstad -
MTS MCSE MS-MVP
Sr. Systems Administrator
Inovis Inc.
It's possible I've
seen this behavior because I'm doing something wrong, but I think it might be
a bug? Anyway, whenever I've set up DNS separately from DCPROMO, set up
my forward and reverse zones, then pointed my soon-to-be DC at it and run
DCPROMO, it tells me the DNS could not be found or does not accept dynamic
registrations. So when I go back onto the DNS to check what I did wrong,
I find that I have to go into the SOA record and add the domain name (to make
it a FQDN and not just a host name). Voila, it works. So the
question is, if the SOA is created automatically, and it knows the domain name
(because it is the SOA record for that domain's zone, duh!), shouldn't it
write the FQDN there or assume if the domain suffix is not specified that it
should tack on it's own domain name just like it does for any of the other
records? Or am I missing something?
Thanks
Rich
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