Domino server resolution question!

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Hi,

When we install ours Domino servers long time ago with R4, we name ours server as follow:

Exanple:

scinotes.domainX.com/NotesDomain (HUB)

suknotes.domainY.com/SUK/NotesDomain

sconotes.domainZ.com/SCO/NotesDomain

When a user access is home mail server, he connect to Ex: sconotes.domainZ.com/SCO/NotesDomain so in ours internal DNS, we have to maintain the legacy domain(sconotes.domainZ.com).

www.domainZ.com External IP Address

sconotes.domainZ.com Internal IP address

We want to remove these legacy domain from ours internal DNS and use only 1 domain to resolve ours Domino servers. Example:

scinotes.domainA.com/NotesDomain (HUB)

suknotes.domainA.com/SUK/NotesDomain

sconotes.domainA.com/SCO/NotesDomain

What do I need to do to achive that?

How does the Notes client resolve the Domino server?

Do I need to rename my Domino servers?

Do I need to only change the Fully Qualified Internet host name and create a connection in every user personal address book?

Basically what I want is that when people are travelling between “Global Private Network” offices they should use the internal connection to the Lotus Notes server rather than the external one. In their local offices we address this by having a local internal zone for the legacy domain, but this is not replicated to all sites

Any comments will be appreciate.

Thank you!

Alexandre

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Subject: Domino server resolution question!

You should’nt use a dot in your server names, from the help :

Server 79 maximum

  • Choose a name you want to keep. If you change a server name, you must recertify the server ID.

  • Choose a name that meets your network’s requirements for unique naming. On TCP/IP, use only the characters 0 through 9, A through Z, and - (dash). On NetBIOS, the first 15 characters must be unique. On SPX, the first 47 characters must be unique.

  • Keep in mind that Domino performs replication and mail routing on servers named with numbers before it does those tasks on servers named with alphabetic characters.

If you did it because you think it’s the way you can link a domino server to a mail domain name, you can use a global domain document

Even though it’s not the nicest way, I think the easiest is to create new servers with new names (without dots ! so :

scinotes/NotesDomain (HUB)

suknotes/SUK/NotesDomain

sconotes/SCO/NotesDomain, because internet domain will be found in global domain documents and in the DNS ), put theses names (so scinotes, and so on, not scinotes/notesdomain) in the DNS, and use the move mail database command of the admin client (which use adminp) to move all dbs from the old to the new server

Hope this helps

Christian