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DNS
isn't *that* hard to understand.
And
I'm on record saying that the biggest mistake Microsoft made with Windows NT4
was making the GUI too close to Win95's - made it way too easy for people to
fall into the trap of thinking they're very similar, which we know they are not.
And that mentality is what led to a lot of underqualified admins making poor
choices, thereby giving NT4 the bad rep it got. (Ok - maybe part of the
reason)
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Roger D. Seielstad -
MTS MCSE MS-MVP
Sr. Systems Administrator
Inovis Inc.
Makes sense -
although seems like if it did the default domain suffix it would save some
newbies a few hours or days... then again, nah leave it as is, job security!
LOL
The first couple of
times I spent a long time trying to figure this out and kept going back to the
install DNS with DCPROMO option. I found the SOA problem by accident (by
reading the dialog, funny how that helps sometimes)
Rich
From: Roger
Seielstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 9:07
AM
To:
'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] DNS SOA entered
incorrectly during installation
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.
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Roger D. Seielstad -
MTS MCSE MS-MVP
Sr. Systems
Administrator
Inovis
Inc.
-----Original
Message-----
From: Rich
Milburn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 9:34
AM
To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [ActiveDir] DNS SOA entered
incorrectly during installation
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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