Preventing domain controller from adding A/AAAA for domain root

Asked Oct 28 '16 at 08:04

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I have set up the domain contoso.com. The domain controllers in the domain are also the DNS servers within the network.

When users try to resolve contoso.com, they receive the A/AAAA records of the domain controllers. However, we want contoso.com to resolve to a different address (the web server of the company).

We added the A/AAAA records for the web server to the domain root, but noticed that there were additional A/AAAA records, pointing to the domain controllers. We removed those, but they are being re-created.

How do I prevent this from happening? I did not notice any degraded performance or other issues while the records were not present.

asked Oct 28 '16 at 08:04

Oliver Salzburg

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You didn't use your DNS domain name `contoso.com` as the [name of your AD domain](http://serverfault.com/a/76721/37681) did you? – HBruijn Oct 28 '16 at 08:10
@HBruijn That is exactly what I did. My previous thought was that you're not supposed to do it, but I never really knew *why* – Oliver Salzburg Oct 28 '16 at 08:11
http://serverfault.com/a/526213/37681 is also of interest – HBruijn Oct 28 '16 at 08:55

Preventing domain controller from adding A/AAAA for domain root

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