Delegation

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I have a whatever.com in my forward look up zone and I
have www.whatever.com delegated to the proper DNS server.
www.whatever.com works just fine. I would like just
whatever.com to point to www.whatever.com. I'm not sure
how to do this on the DNS server since whatever.com is
actualy not authoratative on this DNS server.

THANKS
helm
 
Helm said:
I have a whatever.com in my forward look up zone and I
have www.whatever.com delegated to the proper DNS server.
www.whatever.com works just fine.
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The above indicates either an incorrect setup OR a misunderstanding
of the technical term "delegation."

If you have the ZONE whatever.com, you should NOT be 'delegating'
www but rather have an A (host) record for it.

(Or a CNAME pointing to another A record PERHAPS.)
I would like just
whatever.com to point to www.whatever.com.
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A (host) resource record does this -- not delegation.
I'm not sure
how to do this on the DNS server since whatever.com is
actualy not authoratative on this DNS server.
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Then it must be done on the authoritative MASTER -- usually
called the "Primary DNS" server for that zone.

BTW, Authoritative probably doesn't mean what you think it means
either. Secondary DNS servers are authoritative but they do NOT
allow for changes.

Go to the Primary (or AD-integrated if you have that instead) and
right-click, "add Host"....
 
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Helm said:
I have a whatever.com in my forward look up zone and I
have www.whatever.com delegated to the proper DNS server.
www.whatever.com works just fine. I would like just
whatever.com to point to www.whatever.com. I'm not sure
how to do this on the DNS server since whatever.com is
actualy not authoratative on this DNS server.

THANKS
helm
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This is probably the second most asked question in this group. Internally
whatever.com _must_ resolve to the IP addresses of domain controllers that
have File Sharing enabled.
You can set up a site in IIS on your DCs for whatever.com and have IIS
redirect the request to www.whatever.com that is the best you can do.
Changing the behavior of DNS to give out IP addresses of DCs will cause GPOs
to fail and replication errors because they will be looking to the webserver
for the SYSVOL DFS share at \\whatever.com\SYSVOL
 
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