DNS and NT-domain

[Yngve Øines]

We have a NT4.0 domain with both NT-servers, Windows 2000 Server and
Windows 2003 server.

We are now about to implement a new backup-solution wich requiered
consistent DNS. So I have configured the Windows 2003 server to act as
DNS-server and allowed dynamically (unsecure) updates of records both
in Forward and reverse lookups.

The problem is that I am not able get it work proberly; a "ping -a
IP-adresse" or "ping -a hostname" randomly answer just hostname or
FQDN (hostname.domain.com). This give complications in the Backup
solutions when the servers answer different names.

As far as I am able to understand all servers are configured equally,
but I am not able to understand why they behave differently.

Have anyone a checklist, or somewhere I can start searching for help
on such issue?

Yngve

 

[Ace Fekay [MVP]]

We have a NT4.0 domain with both NT-servers, Windows 2000 Server and
Windows 2003 server.

We are now about to implement a new backup-solution wich requiered
consistent DNS. So I have configured the Windows 2003 server to act as
DNS-server and allowed dynamically (unsecure) updates of records both
in Forward and reverse lookups.

The problem is that I am not able get it work proberly; a "ping -a
IP-adresse" or "ping -a hostname" randomly answer just hostname or
FQDN (hostname.domain.com). This give complications in the Backup
solutions when the servers answer different names.

As far as I am able to understand all servers are configured equally,
but I am not able to understand why they behave differently.

Have anyone a checklist, or somewhere I can start searching for help
on such issue?

Yngve

I'm not sure here, but what I'm guessing I guess depends on what exact
records are in DNS for it to resolve. If there two entries, one of just
'hostname' and the other 'hostname.domain.com', then you are seeing Round
Robin response, toggling the response between the two entries for the same
IP address.

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Regards,
Ace

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