domain rename(s) for multi tenant smoothwall

[3enjammin]

Hello,

I have recently got 3 schools on a multi tenant hosted smoothwall. The DC's for each school had the same domain name. (didn't realise / wasn't advised this could be an issue for policy based filtering - this is my first ever move away from LA provision)

So I have renamed 2 of the servers using rendom (/list, edit xml, /upload, /prepare and /execute) then gpfixup (/newdns and /newnb) both after creating new DNS primary zone for the new domain, and rejoined all the machines on the 2 sites over easter. it seems ok.

Although - Smoothwall engineer is complaining of a nslookup of new domain resolving to 2 sites (it resolves to the domain I didn't change as well as the new one)

For what it is worth - both my dns & ad on the new domains still have reference to the old domain name in the root of the manager tree I am guessing there is something dns that I have yet to change.

I am running win2k12r2

Does anyone better versed in DNS / domain rename have anything they can throw me please? Until I get it sorted I can't filter using security groups only by means of an inline proxy.

Thanks

[deano]

You could of left the names the same and setup tenants. Then assign the relevant DC to the tenancy range

[3enjammin]

thanks for reply. when you say tenancy range do you mean IP? smoothwall engineer was pretty adamant that i had to do this otherwise they couldn't distinguish between the 3 sites

[3enjammin]

recon it is because the tut i followed didn't include renaming the DC itself. Now looking at doing this retrospectively.