Ensuring DNS resolves on Windows™ systems -- All TCP protocols
If an IBM® Domino® server is a Microsoft™ Windows™ system, often two name services exist on the system -- NetBIOS over IP and DNS.
About this task
If you assign the same name to both the Domino® server and the system, client applications that use either the IBM® Notes® Name Service or DNS can encounter name-space ghosting between the two names. If the NetBIOS record for a system's host name has already been found, the name resolving process ends and the DNS record for the Domino® server on that system is never found.
Note: For a Domino® server
on Windows™ 2000, problems
occur only if you enable name services for NetBIOS over IP in order
to join an NT domain using Server Message Blocks (SMB). For example,
for the Domino® server BosMail02/Renovations,
the common name is BosMail02. You name the system NT-BosMail02. You
create an A record in DNS for NT-BosMail02.renovations.com and a CNAME
record for BosMail02.renovations.com, linking it with NT-BosMail02.renovations.com.
To prevent this problem, do the following:
Procedure
- Add a preface such as W2K- to the system name, using the Network Identification tab on the System Properties dialog box.
- Create an A record (or, for IPv6, AAAA record) in DNS for the system name. The IP address is the same as the one for the Domino® server.
- Create a CNAME record in DNS for the Domino® server's name, linking it to the system name.