Topic: Windows NT4 DNS Server question

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Submitted: 5/28/2008 10:02:00 AM

By: Anonymous

Hello,

We have one old Windows NT4.

We want to use it only to work as DNS server, to provide DNS services for
external remote VPN hosts that are not in our Windows 2003 Domain.
We want to mantain only one primary zone in that server with our intranet
resource records.

Question:
In the xpto.org zone we have one record called "intranet" to 172.16.30.25.
This way, users can acces our intranet server by the URL "intranet.xpto.org".
However we want that, if users only write the URL "xpto.org", can also
access our intranet server.
So, users can write "intranet.xpto.org" ou "xpto.org" to access our intranet
server (172.16.30.25).

This can be done with windows 2000/2003 server. But how to do it with
Windows Server NT4?

I already tried to modify the dns zone file, but without success.

Thanks and Best Regards
Duarte S.

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Submitted: 5/28/2008 1:07:05 PM

By: Herb Martin

Re: Windows NT4 DNS Server question

"DS" <DS@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:03CE7E8B-9C1C-4DA7-8384-47A43815D07E@microsoft.com...
> Hello,
>
> We have one old Windows NT4.
>
> We want to use it only to work as DNS server, to provide DNS services for
> external remote VPN hosts that are not in our Windows 2003 Domain.
> We want to mantain only one primary zone in that server with our intranet
> resource records.

It must be at least SP4 but since ALL NT4 computers should have
SP6A + Hotfixes this should not be an issue.

SP4 is required to support the DNS SRV records as a domain zone
secondary.

> Question:
> In the xpto.org zone we have one record called "intranet" to 172.16.30.25.

> This way, users can acces our intranet server by the URL
> "intranet.xpto.org".

> However we want that, if users only write the URL "xpto.org", can also
> access our intranet server.

> So, users can write "intranet.xpto.org" ou "xpto.org" to access our
> intranet
> server (172.16.30.25).
>
> This can be done with windows 2000/2003 server. But how to do it with
> Windows Server NT4?

No it cannot easily be done with an AD Domain, independent of
NT4/2003 DNS.

The reason is that all of your DCs register the 'bare' DOMAIN NAME
by default.

> I already tried to modify the dns zone file, but without success.

You cannot modify a 'secondary' as it updates from its master.

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Submitted: 5/29/2008 9:02:02 AM

By: Anonymous

Re: Windows NT4 DNS Server question

Hello,

Thanks for you answer.

We don't want to integrate AD with Windows NT4 DNS server!.

I only want to publish to our branch hosts (and they not belong to our AD
domain) a resource record for a machine that is in our internal network.

It's a simple thing to do. We already did it and works.

The problem is we want that hosts access that machine by the FQDN
(intranet.xpto.org) or only by the domain name (xpto.org).
We only need to point intranet.xpto.org and xpto.org to the same IP address.

Like the same we do to access Microsoft. We can write in the browser
"www.microsoft.com" or only "microsoft.com".

With Windows NT4 DNS server is simple to add the resource record
"intranet.xpto.org" pointing to one IP address. Now, how can we do this if we
want access the same IP address only by the domain name "xpto.org"?

"Herb Martin" wrote:

>
> "DS" <DS@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:03CE7E8B-9C1C-4DA7-8384-47A43815D07E@microsoft.com...
> > Hello,
> >
> > We have one old Windows NT4.
> >
> > We want to use it only to work as DNS server, to provide DNS services for
> > external remote VPN hosts that are not in our Windows 2003 Domain.
> > We want to mantain only one primary zone in that server with our intranet
> > resource records.
>
> It must be at least SP4 but since ALL NT4 computers should have
> SP6A + Hotfixes this should not be an issue.
>
> SP4 is required to support the DNS SRV records as a domain zone
> secondary.
>
> > Question:
> > In the xpto.org zone we have one record called "intranet" to 172.16.30.25.
>
> > This way, users can acces our intranet server by the URL
> > "intranet.xpto.org".
>
> > However we want that, if users only write the URL "xpto.org", can also
> > access our intranet server.
>
> > So, users can write "intranet.xpto.org" ou "xpto.org" to access our
> > intranet
> > server (172.16.30.25).
> >
> > This can be done with windows 2000/2003 server. But how to do it with
> > Windows Server NT4?
>
> No it cannot easily be done with an AD Domain, independent of
> NT4/2003 DNS.
>
> The reason is that all of your DCs register the 'bare' DOMAIN NAME
> by default.
>
>
> > I already tried to modify the dns zone file, but without success.
>
> You cannot modify a 'secondary' as it updates from its master.
>
>
>

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