Ensuring DNS resolves on Windows™ systems -- All TCP protocols
If an IBM® Domino® server is a Microsoft™ Windows™ system, often two name services exist on the system -- NetBIOS over IP and DNS.
About this task
If you assign the same name to both the Domino® server and the system, client applications that use either the IBM® Notes® Name Service or DNS can encounter name-space ghosting between the two names. If the NetBIOS record for a system's host name has already been found, the name resolving process ends and the DNS record for the Domino® server on that system is never found.
To prevent this problem, do the following:
Procedure
- Add a preface such as W2K- to the system name, using the Network Identification tab on the System Properties dialog box.
- Create an A record (or, for IPv6, AAAA record) in DNS for the system name. The IP address is the same as the one for the Domino® server.
- Create a CNAME record in DNS for the Domino® server's name, linking it to the system name.