Re: Debian Server hostname and Win 2003 DNS server

[Joe <joe@jretrading.com>]

Mirco Piccin wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> > > I have 2 new running Debian Etch :-) server into an (old)  Windows
> > > environment.
> > > Servers work like a charm, but i am not able to ping them by hostname.
> > > They are configured with a static ip address and have samba installed and
> > > working.
>
> >  Is there some problem with adding the machines as A records in the Windows
> > DNS Management console?
>
> I am not the Windows Administrator. So i call the man who administer
> the DNS and DHCP server.
> He tell me that the Windows 2003 DNS service does not allow dns entry
> update if the machine is not registered in Active Directory.
He's talking out of his bottom.

I also walk the Dark Path, and I administer a Small Business Server 
2003, based on Windows Server 2003. It has an Etch server, two routers 
and a printer in the forward lookup zone of the local domain, absolutely 
none of which are domain members, but all, by virtue of DNS entries, 
known to AD.

How in hell's name does he make a gateway router an AD member? Possibly 
AD won't accept a zone transfer from a non-AD machine, but there's 
nothing stopping him entering it by hand.

It's right click, New Host (A)...