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*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 <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > >
