In article <[email protected]>, Phil Mayers <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 08/04/13 14:46, Sam Wilson wrote: > > In article <[email protected]>, > > Phil Mayers <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Sam Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >>> [adding an A record for ed.ac.uk.] > >>> > >> > >> If your AD realm is also called ed.ac.uk then adding an A record will > >> definitely affect things. > > > > Which is exactly the opposite of what our AD guys said, but not with > > such great conviction. :-) > > Off the top of my head the two most recent issues we've had. > > 1. If you don't have a domain controller A record at your AD realm name, > you'll experience sporadic timeouts and slowness if you ever want to > roll out DFS, particularly if your domain members include non-Microsoft > clients such as Macs > > 2. If you put something else at that place, you'll see SMB connection > attempts and if they fail but port 80 is open, you'll see Windows trying > to do WebDAV requests (!) to it. > > Both these and other issues make me wish we'd chosen a sub-domain for > our AD realm when we migrated from NT4. But we had no way of knowing at > the time :o( Thank you (belatedly) for that information. As I think I remarked elsewhere we wished to retain the existing structure of our DNS, with some domains delegated to others (as well as a lot that we delegate to ourselves) which needed to be in the same AD thingy[*]. Forcing another layer of DNS naming between the institution and the department seemed inappropriate. Sam -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
