AD/DNS apparent naming restriction ?

[jonhowe]

I am testing a new Win2003/AD/DNS/DHCP setup.

I decided to create an AD/domain of the form

mycompany.1234

rather than mycompany.local or similar.

Everything appeared to be working fine except that WinXP clients were getting event viewer errors relating to autoenrollment and also group policy processing aborts. Needless to say group policy settings were not being applied to workstations but all other functionality seemed OK.

When I reinstalled using mycomany.local all problems went away.

Is there a restriction on using numbers for the domain identifier ?

 

[aftertaf]

no idea, but using .local is recommended :it will never be used on the internet, so never resolved from the internet...

Aftertaf

"Solutions are not the answer." - Richard Nixon

 

[mrdenny]

I think there is a DNS rule about having a part of a domain name being all numbers. You'd have to check the DNS white papers to be sure. The *nix guys will probably know for sure.

Denny
MCSA (2003) / MCDBA (SQL 2000)

--Anything is possible. All it takes is a little research. (Me)

http://www.mrdenny.com

(My very old site)