In article <mailman.51.1365192701.20661.bind-us...@lists.isc.org>, Dave Warren <li...@hireahit.com> wrote:
> On 2013-04-05 12:18, Sam Wilson wrote: > > We're currently prevaricating over putting in an A record for ed.ac.uk. > > Whilst my colleagues who manage active directory assure me that having > > an A record there - pointing at the content-managed web server that has > > difficulty handling arbitrary URLs - won't break anything I'm not going > > to try it except under very controlled conditions and after I've spoken > > to a lot of other people who do it already. > > Is ed.ac.uk your Active Directory root as well? If so, my experience is > that pointing it at anything but domain controllers will eventually lead > you to issues. It is. That's the sort of response I was hoping for - thank you. > It's not to say that this totally forbidden, but there is (was?) > Microsoft best practices documents suggesting avoiding this > configuration entirely when possible, although there were ways to > mitigate most of the negative side effects. If you know of a reference that would be helpful. > Obviously if you can run a split DNS environment this is less of a factor. We don't and we're trying not to have to. 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 bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
