DNS domain issues

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Prits

Hi all,

bit of a confusing one... I have a DNS server which hosts a zone
a.mycompany.com and on the DNS server - i have secondary zones for other
domains which need to be resolved (which dont share the namespace
mycompany.com)... despite these being on the DNS server...

The suffix given to the clients is a.mycompany.com and if I add secondary
suffixes on the client of the other domains - it works! and also if i ping
the full fqdn... - it works!

DNS server doesnt seem to be going down the zone files/... is there
something i need to put in zone a.mycompany,com?

Thanks,
-P
 
You have a DNS server. It hosts a.mycompany.com and, say, otherdomain.com.
Your clients have a.mycompany.com for their suffixes.

You have a record called xyz in a.mycompany.com and another record called
abc in otherdomain.com

You are expecting that if you ping xyz from a client, it should resolve to
xyz.a.mycompany.com. Your testing discovers that it does.
Now you are expecting that if you ping abc, it should resolve to
abc.othercompany.com. You are expecting this to happen because you have the
zone in your DNS server, but your testing shows that it does not?

If the above are correct, then you are looking at the "expected behavior".
This is a client side issue, and is resolved by doing what you've just
discovered - adding the appropriate suffixes to your clients. You can add
multiple suffixes automatically through the use of GPO (if all your clients
are XP or W2K3) or by script.

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Deji Akomolafe said:
You have a DNS server. It hosts a.mycompany.com and, say,
otherdomain.com. Your clients have a.mycompany.com for their suffixes.

You have a record called xyz in a.mycompany.com and another record
called abc in otherdomain.com

You are expecting that if you ping xyz from a client, it should
resolve to xyz.a.mycompany.com. Your testing discovers that it does.
Now you are expecting that if you ping abc, it should resolve to
abc.othercompany.com. You are expecting this to happen because you
have the zone in your DNS server, but your testing shows that it does
not?

If the above are correct, then you are looking at the "expected
behavior". This is a client side issue, and is resolved by doing what
you've just discovered - adding the appropriate suffixes to your
clients. You can add multiple suffixes automatically through the use
of GPO (if all your clients are XP or W2K3) or by script.
Click to expand...

Deji, here's a repost of one of your own posts from Dec, 2003 with a script
you used to populate the Search Suffix, and an explanation... Remember this
one? :-)
----------------------------------------------------------------
I use a Machine Startup Script through GPO for this purpose. I apply the GPO
at the Domain Level so all my computers get it.

I use 2 files for the process - one .bat file and one .vbs file. The bat
file is the one that is specified in the GPO as the Startup script, and all
it does is call the .vbs file which does the DNS suffix configuration.

'This is the bat file
REM //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
@echo off
cscript %logonserver%\netlogon\addDNS-Suffix.vbs

:END
REM //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////


'This is the .vbs file
'//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
On Error Resume Next

SET WSHShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WSHShell.RegWrite
"HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\TCPIP\Parameters\SearchList",
"FirstDomain.com,child.firstdomain.com,seconddomain.net,firstdomain.blah,oth
erdomain.local,etcdomain.etc", "REG_SZ"
SET WSHShell = Nothing
'//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Both files go into the the Netlogon share of one of your DCs. From here,
they will be copied over to the rest of your DCs.

HTH




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Awesome, man :) My reader couldn't go that far back. What do you use?

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Sincerely,
Dèjì Akómöláfé, MCSE+M MCSA+M MCP+I
Microsoft MVP - Directory Services
www.readymaids.com - we know IT
www.akomolafe.com
Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about
Yesterday? -anon
"Ace Fekay [MVP]"
 
Oh, THAT :) That's too low-tech for me. LOL

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Sincerely,
Dèjì Akómöláfé, MCSE+M MCSA+M MCP+I
Microsoft MVP - Directory Services
www.readymaids.com - we know IT
www.akomolafe.com
Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about
Yesterday? -anon
"Ace Fekay [MVP]"
 
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