Domain/site name

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Hi,
If I change the name of a site is that the same as
changing the dns domain? If so, is it really as easy as
just renaming the site in sites and services?
Thanks for any help.
Art
 
If you rename a Site in Active directory Sites and Services it has no effect
on the DNS domain name. It will change the records a DC will register so
that Clients can find a DC in their site.
 
Thanks you for the response...
Is it possible to change the dns domain name?
The reason I ask is because I stupidly used our registered
domain names for our active directory infrastructure.
Everything works well, except VPN...when clients try to
access a resource in the directory, they time out doing
dns lookups because they query the dns server of they're
ISP which tries to resolve the names. Unfortunatly the
hosts do not have records and the look ups time out.
The only way that I can think of to fix it is either
become authoritive for our domains, or change the domain
names to something other than our registered domain names.
Thanks again
Art
-----Original Message-----
If you rename a Site in Active directory Sites and Services it has no effect
on the DNS domain name. It will change the records a DC will register so
that Clients can find a DC in their site.

--
Richard McCall [MSFT]

"This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights."
art said:
Hi,
If I change the name of a site is that the same as
changing the dns domain? If so, is it really as easy as
just renaming the site in sites and services?
Thanks for any help.
Art


.
 
While win2k3 will allow for dns domain name changes, but a win2k domain
rename doesn't if you're in native mode (without a ton of work basically
migrating to a "shell" domain, recreating the new domain with name you want,
and then migrating back from shell into it). If you're in mixed mode, you
can, but it's still a lot of work, and you'll have to make that call.

292541 How to Rename the DNS Name of a Windows 2000 Domain
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=292541

(as part of that, if your clients are xp or win2k, they'll have to be
re-joined to the "new" nt4 domain to quit using kerberos, before the domain
is upgraded to 2k again)
--
David Brandt
Microsoft Corporation

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art said:
Thanks you for the response...
Is it possible to change the dns domain name?
The reason I ask is because I stupidly used our registered
domain names for our active directory infrastructure.
Everything works well, except VPN...when clients try to
access a resource in the directory, they time out doing
dns lookups because they query the dns server of they're
ISP which tries to resolve the names. Unfortunatly the
hosts do not have records and the look ups time out.
The only way that I can think of to fix it is either
become authoritive for our domains, or change the domain
names to something other than our registered domain names.
Thanks again
Art
-----Original Message-----
If you rename a Site in Active directory Sites and Services it has no effect
on the DNS domain name. It will change the records a DC will register so
that Clients can find a DC in their site.

--
Richard McCall [MSFT]

"This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights."
art said:
Hi,
If I change the name of a site is that the same as
changing the dns domain? If so, is it really as easy as
just renaming the site in sites and services?
Thanks for any help.
Art


.
 
Art,

I have used the so-called split brain DNS set up in several organizations
and have never had a problem with VPN access.

Can you provide more details? I may be able to help.

HTH,

Cary

art said:
Thanks you for the response...
Is it possible to change the dns domain name?
The reason I ask is because I stupidly used our registered
domain names for our active directory infrastructure.
Everything works well, except VPN...when clients try to
access a resource in the directory, they time out doing
dns lookups because they query the dns server of they're
ISP which tries to resolve the names. Unfortunatly the
hosts do not have records and the look ups time out.
The only way that I can think of to fix it is either
become authoritive for our domains, or change the domain
names to something other than our registered domain names.
Thanks again
Art
-----Original Message-----
If you rename a Site in Active directory Sites and Services it has no effect
on the DNS domain name. It will change the records a DC will register so
that Clients can find a DC in their site.

--
Richard McCall [MSFT]

"This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights."
art said:
Hi,
If I change the name of a site is that the same as
changing the dns domain? If so, is it really as easy as
just renaming the site in sites and services?
Thanks for any help.
Art


.
 
Cary,
Thanks. I was setting up RRAS so my clients could have
access to the network through a dialup connection remotely.
Most of the users have AOL as thier dialup service. The
users use AOL to dial into the internet then launch a
connectoid to tunnel in to the network. That part works,
the users connect, and authenticate on the rras server.,
When they try to browse the machine hangs. When they try
to launch outlook in corporate mode it times out.
I ran netmon and found that even though I specified the
dns server for the clients to use, they still queried the
dns servers from AOL first. Being the domain is public,
the dns servers try to resolve all queries to that domain,
even our private hosts. eventually they time out after
they query the authoritive dns server for that zone. I
have racked my brain trying to work around this, but still
no work. I can't figure out a way to force the clients to
use either a host file, or dns servers that I
specify...they always seem to query the AOL servewres
first.
 
does this affect exchange 2000? the email addresses will
remain the same, but the fqdn will change...
-----Original Message-----
Thanks, I checked out the article you mentioned...
Thanks for the help.
Art
-----Original Message-----
While win2k3 will allow for dns domain name changes, but a win2k domain
rename doesn't if you're in native mode (without a ton
of
work basically
migrating to a "shell" domain, recreating the new domain with name you want,
and then migrating back from shell into it). If you're in mixed mode, you
can, but it's still a lot of work, and you'll have to make that call.

292541 How to Rename the DNS Name of a Windows 2000 Domain
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=292541

(as part of that, if your clients are xp or win2k, they'll have to be
re-joined to the "new" nt4 domain to quit using
kerberos,
before the domain
is upgraded to 2k again)
--
David Brandt
Microsoft Corporation

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
Please do not send e-mail directly to this alias. This alias is for
newsgroup purposes only.
art said:
Thanks you for the response...
Is it possible to change the dns domain name?
The reason I ask is because I stupidly used our registered
domain names for our active directory infrastructure.
Everything works well, except VPN...when clients try to
access a resource in the directory, they time out doing
dns lookups because they query the dns server of they're
ISP which tries to resolve the names. Unfortunatly the
hosts do not have records and the look ups time out.
The only way that I can think of to fix it is either
become authoritive for our domains, or change the domain
names to something other than our registered domain names.
Thanks again
Art
-----Original Message-----
If you rename a Site in Active directory Sites and
Services it has no effect
on the DNS domain name. It will change the records a DC
will register so
that Clients can find a DC in their site.

--
Richard McCall [MSFT]

"This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
confers no
rights."
Hi,
If I change the name of a site is that the same as
changing the dns domain? If so, is it really as
easy
.
 
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