On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 12:12, Peter Karunyu
<pkarunyu@gmail.com> wrote:
Good people, I seek thine counsel.
I have an intranet server running CentOS 5.5, the hostname of this machine is intranet. The users who will be accessing this intranet will be accessing it from Windows XP and 7. The AD and DC are on Windows Server 2008.
My sys admin is sceptical that it is possible for a user to type http://intranet/ on their machine and access the app, she says I have to use the IP address. Unfortunately, I have close to zero knowledge of Windows Domain Controllers, therefore, I am at a loss for facts to use to challenge the evil sys admin.
Can someone please point me in the right direction?
She is a sysadmin without any knowledge of how DNS works, which makes me wonder how she managed to get the AD to work for her DC and entire domain. Perhaps sheer luck that MS automagically gives you working values so you just click Next ->Next.
Anyway, on the DC, there is a definately an DNS server running. Adding an "A" record entry in the forward zones with a name of "intranet", pointing to the IP address of the Centos server should do the first level of trick.
Second level, from my little knowledge of unix, tells me that you'll simply have the relevant entry in /etc/hosts for "intranet", for the benefit of Apache.
Say hi to her:-)