DNS Host file for remote clients

[GenTrac]

We have a server named “Intra” that user connect to and had a old IP address of 10.159.46.70. We changed some of the schema and now the same server “Intra” has an IP address of 10.159.47.100. Some of our remote clients will have host file entries to resolve “Intra” to the old IP address. Is it possible to have forwarder in our DNS server to reflect both IP addresses seeing that client workstations first try to resolve through the host file? What is the best way of getting these unknown clients to access the server without a lot of manual work?

 

[Serbtastic]

As your remote clients have hosts file entries for this server, you would need to change the entry in the hosts file on each machine.

 

[GlenJohnson]

Send out a batch file with the new hosts file in it. Have your remote users run it.

clr
copy hosts c:/system32/drivers/etc/hosts
close

This will overwrite the old hosts file without you having to do a lot of legwork. Good luck.

Glen A. Johnson
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