dns

I've been in the process of automating the creation of Apache VirtualHosts from the command line for some time now. What always annoyed me, was that after the vHost was generated, I had to manually add the DNS entry on our Windows server. Well…. No more!

I recently started working for a big firm, which (naturally) uses Active Directory. The domain is company.local , with useful servers all having the addresses server.local etc. To my surprise, Linux didn't ask for DNS resolution on these names, making it very hard to work. Thankfully, that's simple to resolve.