On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 9:10 AM, David Lum <[email protected]> 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
