Simple question about zone and CNAME

[Sam Wilson]

In article <mailman.84.1365479484.20661.bind-users at lists.isc.org>,
 Doug Barton <dougb at dougbarton.us> wrote:

> On 04/08/2013 06:54 AM, Sam Wilson wrote:
> > In article <mailman.61.1365232319.20661.bind-users at lists.isc.org>,
> >   Doug Barton <dougb at dougbarton.us> 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.
> >
> > We've been running our main domain with the underscore domains delegated
> > to AD for well over a decade and it's been neither painful nor fragile,
> 
> You apparently missed the context of the response. :)
> 
> I didn't say "impossible," and I've set it up the way you describe in 
> the past. But it assumes both an initial and ongoing level of clue that 
> is not always available. Whereas, "put all the AD stuff in its own 
> subdomain" is both pain-less, and has other advantages.

It would not have been painless for us.

Sam

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