Multiple stub zones - set preference? Weird...

Mark Z.

We have 3 AD-integrated stub zones (forest-wide):
corp.company.net (AD Domain)
company.net (AD Forest Root)
oldcompany.com (Legacy, phasing this out)

All 3 stubzones have the same server as SOA: DNSServer01.oldcompany.com
Our AD DNS Server is ServerDC01.corp.company.net

We have a host: Server01
Server01 has a record (same IP) Server01.oldcompany.com and
Server01.corp.company.net, both of which resolve to the same IP.

When I do a NSLookup on our AD server, it always returns the record on the
stub zone oldcompany.com instead of the stub zone for the domainn
corp.company.net even though the SOA has both.

How do I set a preference condition to say if there's a record in the zone
corp.company.net to return that instead of the record in oldcompany.com?
I thought this would be automatic considering the DNS suffixes on both the
client and server both have corp.company.net above oldcompany.com AND the AD
DNS server itself is joined to the corp.company.net domain.

What gives?

Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]

Read inline please.

In news:,
Mark Z. <> wrote:
> We have 3 AD-integrated stub zones (forest-wide):
> corp.company.net (AD Domain)
> company.net (AD Forest Root)
> oldcompany.com (Legacy, phasing this out)
>
> All 3 stubzones have the same server as SOA:
> DNSServer01.oldcompany.com
> Our AD DNS Server is ServerDC01.corp.company.net
>
> We have a host: Server01
> Server01 has a record (same IP) Server01.oldcompany.com and
> Server01.corp.company.net, both of which resolve to the same IP.
>
> When I do a NSLookup on our AD server, it always returns the record
> on the stub zone oldcompany.com instead of the stub zone for the
> domainn corp.company.net even though the SOA has both.
>
> How do I set a preference condition to say if there's a record in the
> zone corp.company.net to return that instead of the record in
> oldcompany.com?
> I thought this would be automatic considering the DNS suffixes on
> both the client and server both have corp.company.net above
> oldcompany.com AND the AD DNS server itself is joined to the
> corp.company.net domain.
>
> What gives?

This is determined by the DNS Suffix search order, the default order is,
Primary DNS suffix, Connection DNS suffix, then parent names of the Primary
DNS suffix.
You have the option of creating the suffixes and orders of your choice in
TCP/IP Properties, or by creating a custom DNS suffix search list in a Group
Policy.



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Best regards,
Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]
Hope This Helps

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