Which would all be avoided had you initially followed Apple's
directions for proper system setup and met all the proper pre-
requisites for good DNS. Of course that's seems to be easier said
than done for many.
I appreciate the feedback - not so much the assumption that i don't
(think I) know what I'm doing but anyhoo we'll let it pass. feels
quite an honour in a way to be finally bathed in the wrath of Dan. :-)
Turns out you may be correct anyway. I discovered i had a stray PTR to
the old hostname floating around - ie forward lookups were working for
the way things were meant to be post-changeip, but this one PTR wasn't
deleted when i deleted the original A, which i discovered when i was
double checking things with 'dig -x' and got two results back. (OT but
AFAICT W2k3 DNS usually creates/deletes associated reverse zone PTR
records when you manipulate the forward zone - that's certainly been
my experience with it so far but i'm no windows admin so couldn't say
for certain..) but of course by that stage it was too late the damage
had been done.
so to finish this (sub)thread off and for the record - i demoted to
standalone, started up OD again (no drama since all the user accounts
are in AD anyway) and am up and away with minutes to spare. phew.
It was just one of those nights - long, arduous, you're sure you know
what needs to be done and you do it but you're tired and you start to
forget to double. check. every. single. seemingly insignificant.
change you make. that the deletion you deleted really deleted
everything you're assuming it did. you always look left then right
then left when crossing the road and that one time you forget the
second left look* .... and it just escalates from there. :-)
but the end result makes me happy - dual quad-core intel goodness
replacing a tired old 2xG5 - it took longer to push out the 10.5.4
combo update than it did to install, and WGM? 10,000 user records to
list you say? PAH can do that with one hand tied behind it's back
blindfolded and singing "La Marseillaise" :-)
