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More info?)
"Jeff Cochran" <jeff.nospam@zina.com> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 1 Oct 2004 09:44:05 -0700, "Deji Akomolafe"
> <noemail@akomolafe.com> wrote:
>
> >Jeff, I don't think you want him to do that, especially if this DNS
server
> >is also his AD DNS server. There are some discussions on this newsgroups
> >about the pros and cons of doing this. IMO, it causes more problems than
> >good.
>
> If he needs to be able to access his web server by domain alone,
> that's what he has to do.
Yes, but just telling him to do it blindly when he might-have/likely-has
Active Directory is not helping him fully.
He is going to get unreliable results if this is an internal DNS
supporting an AD domain as the DCs also do what you suggest
and with round robin he will be woundering why it works
sometimes (unless he has "netmask ordering" enabled and it
never works the way you indicated.)
Adding the Host record with the same name as the domain/zone
will work IF there is no conflict with other hosts, e.g, for external
client access only it usually works fine.
All DCs register this in internal DNS autmotically and for
internal users it is probably just best to teach them to use
www.whatever.com.
--
Herb Martin
>
> Jeff
>
>
> >--
> >Sincerely,
> >
> >Dèjì Akómöláfé, MCSE MCSA 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
> >"Jeff Cochran" <jeff.nospam@zina.com> wrote in message
> >news:41618269.628203108@msnews.microsoft.com...
> >> On Fri, 1 Oct 2004 09:21:35 -0600, "frank" <frank673@hotmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> >I have a computer that I want to host a web server on it. I created a
> >> >primary lookup zone in the DNS so if I ping the machine such as
> >> >27mayo.casadelperno.com I recieve a response, but if I ping just the
> >domain
> >> >I don't get anything. What should I do in order to get a response just
as
> >if
> >> >I ping google.com. Thanks
> >>
> >> Add a blank host pointing to the IP of the web server.
> >>
> >> Jeff
> >
>