Domain Controller and a secondary IP address
We are trying to reduce the number of DC's we have in our domain. We have one DC that has been around for ever with the same IP address. Lots of "other" devices point to that IP. We want to decommission the server as well as the IP address but this could potentially have an impact on many unknown configurations. The question is, would it be safe to add this IP address as a secondary IP on one of our new DC's that is configured as a DNS/WINS/Time server?
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If you are using DHCP it is not a problem.
if you have assigned static IP - you have to manually change DNS entry for them
if you have assigned static IP - you have to manually change DNS entry for them
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Yes, i understand that aspect, the manual changing of the devices. However, my question is around documentation on why you wouldn't want to have a secondary IP address on a DC to answer to devices that might be configured for that IP address. I know from years of dealing with AD replication and other things, that it could cause problems, but I need some documentation to justify for my team why I am going to make them go and manually change all their stuff. We are not going to use that IP address, it is going away.
I would have to agree with Mike no you can not do this without causing problems.
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Thanks for the guidance. Can you guys point me to any technical documentation on this?
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Yes, I agree. Thanks for the information guys.
There was also a similar thread about reusing over at activedir
http://www.activedir.org/ListArchives/tabid/55/forumid/1/postid/42855/view/topic/Default.aspx
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http://www.activedir.org/ListArchives/tabid/55/forumid/1/postid/42855/view/topic/Default.aspx
listmail = joe Richards = my idol :)
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