Removing old DNS zone after renaming my Windows 2012 R2 domain
I have set up a virtual lab of windows server 2012 and windows 8 clients.
Unfortunately I took a wrong turn right at the start of setting this up. I chose an internal domain name that matched my external domain name. So my external website is www.mydomain.co.uk and my internal AD domain is mydomain.co.uk.
The problem is that I cannot access my website from the internal client PCs and servers. I'm presuming this is because I have a matching zone internally.
I also presume I could add a new A Record to my internal DNS zone (www) pointing to my websites IP address.
However I decided that I should try to rename my domain to ad.mydomain.co.uk.
I followed this guide, which seem to be successful at every step.
https://mizitechinfo.wordpress.com/2013/06/10/simple-guide-how-to-rename-domain-name-in-windows-server-2012/
I now have a renamed domain but still cannot access my website. Im guessing that this is because the old zone still exists in DNS.
If I delete that zone I can then access my website but I then start to have problems adding client PCs to the newly named domain.
Unfortunately I took a wrong turn right at the start of setting this up. I chose an internal domain name that matched my external domain name. So my external website is www.mydomain.co.uk and my internal AD domain is mydomain.co.uk.
The problem is that I cannot access my website from the internal client PCs and servers. I'm presuming this is because I have a matching zone internally.
I also presume I could add a new A Record to my internal DNS zone (www) pointing to my websites IP address.
However I decided that I should try to rename my domain to ad.mydomain.co.uk.
I followed this guide, which seem to be successful at every step.
https://mizitechinfo.wordpress.com/2013/06/10/simple-guide-how-to-rename-domain-name-in-windows-server-2012/
I now have a renamed domain but still cannot access my website. Im guessing that this is because the old zone still exists in DNS.
If I delete that zone I can then access my website but I then start to have problems adding client PCs to the newly named domain.
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None that aren't as complicated as creating a www record and would still require maintenance. T'is the drawback of a shared namespace. Always better to use a unique namespace for AD, whether that is my-ad.company.com or internal.company.com or company.local.....there are drawbacks to all of those approaches, but in my opinion they are better than a shared namespace across the board.
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Ok I'm going to start again with this lab project, this time starting with a workable domain name. Lesson learned.
Thank you for the help.
Thank you for the help.
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This whole renaming process was prompted by the problem of accessing my website. Is there a simple way of resolving that other than adding a www host entry. Can I somehow tell my DNS to always forward requests for www.mydomain.co.uk?