Host name common practice

Barry Finkel b19141 at achilles.ctd.anl.gov
Wed Jul 13 14:27:40 UTC 2005


mmccaws2" <mmccaws at comcast.net> wrote:

>We have multiple AD forests host name problems.  Each forest has it's
>independantly created DNS.  So NS1.AD1.here is SOA for AD1.here and
>NS2.AD2.here is SOA for AD2.here.  AD1.here one-way trust AD2.here.
>Administrator in AD2.here would like to rename server
>hostname1.AD2.here but if hostname1.AD1.here is present the OS prevents
>this.  The gotcha on this is if hostname1 is a unix box in AD1.here
>then it is allowed.
>
>Why is this happening if domains name servers are independant?
>
>If duplicant host names are required on the two domains, what option
>needs to be set in MS DNS.
>
>Or is this even a DNS problem but only the symptoms appear as a DNS
>problem?
>
>Thanks for looking at it.

I am trying to understand what is happening.

How is Administrator in AD2.here attempting to rename server
hostname1.AD2.here?  Is this a DNS record deletion/addition?
Or is the Administrator actually changing the hostname on the
hostname1.AD2.here computer?
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