Simple question about zone and CNAME

[Novosielski, Ryan]

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On 04/06/2013 03:11 AM, Doug Barton wrote:
> On 04/05/2013 11:53 PM, Novosielski, Ryan wrote:
> 
> | It is funny you should mention that... my questions about using
> views | to create a situation where one single record is different
> happens to | be exactly for this reason. The Active Directory
> administrators were | saying that not having umdnj.edu point to an
> Active Directory server | was bothering the AD servers in some
> fashion. The solution we're going | to test is telling the AD
> servers that umdnj.edu are them, but telling | everyone else on the
> planet that it's www. We think this will do it, | but haven't
> tested yet.
> 
> Much better to put the AD stuff in its own subdomain, like
> ad.umdnj.edu. AD DNS is only really happy when it runs the whole
> show for its "home" domain. It's possible to do otherwise, but
> really painful and fragile.

Yeah, it pretty much is in our case. There's just a small amount of
stuff in the root domain for whatever reason and the A record thing is
causing some minor issues that they'd prefer would not occur. I don't
really know the specifics -- something with group policies.

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