DNS help

[Paul E. Knight]

We recently changed our name from UA.com to XB.com

We are running a single win2K domain.

DEV want to change our internal dns name space from ua.com to hq.xb.com

We have a production web presence and want to do development on the
hq.xf.com DNS domain space...

I am a weak on DNS and could use some help.

I created an AD DNS zone of XB.com and a new domain of HQ.XB.com

I changed the DHCP scope to 15 DNS Domain Name = HQ.XB.com

When I do an IPconfig on the workstations I get the following...

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : thedon
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : UA.com
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : UA.com
HQ.XB.com

Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : HQ.XB.com

But the DNS server does not show any new entries under HQ.XB.com the
entries are all in UA.com

We need to have the clients register their DNS entries in HQ.XB.com resolve
names under DNS suffix hq.xf.com

I found the following article relating to win2K3

Windows Server 2003 resolves the problem of centralized DNS management by
introducing group policies to configure DNS clients. For example, the
following parameters are available in Windows Server 2003: . Enable or
disable dynamic registration of the DNS records by a client
. Configure DNS suffix search list of the clients
. Devolution of the primary DNS suffix in a name resolution process
. DNS suffix search list


It looks like I can use GPO in 2K3 to accomplish what I need, but we have a
win2K domain. Any way to move the new DNS GPO over to win2K? is there
another way to make this happen?

Or, do I have to change the windows domain name to make this happen?

oh yeah, they want to do this this afternoon for a big development push this
weekend...

Any help would be appreciated.

Paul

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

We recently changed our name from UA.com to XB.com

We are running a single win2K domain.

DEV want to change our internal dns name space from ua.com to
hq.xb.com

We have a production web presence and want to do development on the
hq.xf.com DNS domain space...

Where is hq.xf.com? I don't understand why this necessitates trying to
change your internal AD or DNS....

I am a weak on DNS and could use some help.

I created an AD DNS zone of XB.com and a new domain of HQ.XB.com

I changed the DHCP scope to 15 DNS Domain Name = HQ.XB.com

When I do an IPconfig on the workstations I get the following...

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : thedon
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : UA.com
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : UA.com
HQ.XB.com

Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : HQ.XB.com

But the DNS server does not show any new entries under HQ.XB.com the
entries are all in UA.com

We need to have the clients register their DNS entries in HQ.XB.com
resolve names under DNS suffix hq.xf.com

I found the following article relating to win2K3

Windows Server 2003 resolves the problem of centralized DNS
management by introducing group policies to configure DNS clients.
For example, the following parameters are available in Windows Server
2003: . Enable or disable dynamic registration of the DNS records by
a client . Configure DNS suffix search list of the clients
. Devolution of the primary DNS suffix in a name resolution
process . DNS suffix search list


It looks like I can use GPO in 2K3 to accomplish what I need, but we
have a win2K domain. Any way to move the new DNS GPO over to win2K?
is there another way to make this happen?

Or, do I have to change the windows domain name to make this happen?

oh yeah, they want to do this this afternoon for a big development
push this weekend...

Good luck....You can't change the AD domain name in Windows 2000 without a
total reinstall. Is this really necessary? It's just cosmetic
anyway....perhaps I'm misunderstanding what it is you're trying to
accomplish & someone else will chime in.

 

[Paul E. Knight]

The change is not really cosmetic.

They want this for cookies for the dev group. (the entire org is
development)

oh and I should ahve stated that I know that we can;'t change the domain
name till we move to win2K3 native mode.

Thanks
Paul
"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"

 

[Paul E. Knight]

I failed to mention that I know that we can;t change the widnows domain name
in win2K. I know that this can only be done in win2K3 in native mode.

 

[Ace Fekay [MVP]]

In

The change is not really cosmetic.

They want this for cookies for the dev group. (the entire org is
development)

oh and I should ahve stated that I know that we can;'t change the
domain name till we move to win2K3 native mode.

Thanks
Paul

As for web development, it really doesn't matter what your external domain
name is, which in your case is HQ.XB.com. AD is a separate logical entity.
Believe me, I host over 25 domains and none of them are based on my AD name,
and can develop or test any one of them at anytime. You don't have to change
your AD name to accomodate any external names, matter of fact, we would
rather keep them diffrerent.

If you want to host the HQ.XB.com zone on your DNS, that is fine, but you
really don't need to add that as a search suffix on your machines, since you
will host that on your DNS anyway and your machines are only pointing to
your DNS for resolution (as it should be with AD). I assume you have a
private address range and the use of hosting HQ.XB.com will be only for the
private IP of the webservers.

Just keep in mind, you just setup IIS with a website for dev for each
domain, but ensure you set the hostheaders to identify each site.

Also, keep in mind, the domain HQ.XB.com will be hosted on a DNS server at
your external ISP's DNS, since that will host the public IP (you can't mix
private and public on the same zone with your internal DNS).



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