[Samba] Samba 4 DNS name Planing

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Wed Dec 4 01:15:19 MST 2013


On Tue, 2013-12-03 at 18:48 +0800, Chan Min Wai wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> Can help to advise if there are any name planing for dns?
> 
> e.g: I've a domain amtb-m.org
> 
> should my samba4 server be
> ad.amtb-m.org?
> 
> OR should I create another non-reachable internal domain
> e.g: ad.amtb-m.lan
> 
> For them?
> 
> What is the benefit on this or that?
> Any documentation about that?

Use a proper subdomain of your registered DNS domain for your new AD
domain.  Don't use .lan, .local, .corp as you have no idea what suffixes
ICANN might sell off next, use the domain you already own as the base. 

Andrew Bartlett

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