Question re DNS settings on Lion Server

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MikeLJ99 Author

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Question re DNS settings on Lion Server

Bit of a newbie question this...

We have a Windows 2003 domain using SCHOOL.INTERNAL as the FQDN

We now need to integrate a new Mac server running Lion into the mix

The Mac server will not be Internet-facing, but will be used to manage internal Mac clients only

Have added a Windows DNS A name / PTR record for the Lion server (macserver.school.internal)

When we run the Server utility in Lion and look at the options in the Change Host Name window,the suggested server host name is macserver.school.internal (picked up from DNS I guess)

Question:

Does it cause a problem if we use the FQDN instead of the usual .local ?

If not, do the Mac clients all need to have .school.internal hostnames also ? And do these need to be manually entered in DNS ?

Thanks

Mac OS X (10.6.7)

Posted on Jul 25, 2011 9:59 AM

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talmy0

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Jul 25, 2011 10:05 AM in response to MikeLJ99

No problem. NEVER use .local because that is reserved for Bonjour and the system won't work. (I learned that the hard way!)

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MikeLJ99 Author

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Jul 25, 2011 10:11 AM in response to talmy0

Cheers for that - do you know whether the Mac clients all need to have full qualified host names as well ? And do these have to be manually added to DNS ?

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talmy0

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Jul 25, 2011 4:03 PM in response to MikeLJ99

The DHCP service collects the client names, so you don't have to enter them. Actually, in a Mac network the systems see each other via Bonjour anyway (there's that .local domain again!)

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