DNS – Ather Beg's Useful Thoughts

18 05, 2021

vCloud Director 10.2.2: “[ERROR] Hostname was not updated via dns reverse-lookup. Failing OS configuration phase.” Resolved!

By Ather Beg|2021-05-18T10:52:40+01:00May 18th, 2021|Uncategorized|0 Comments

While deploying a vCloud Director cell and logging into the VAMI interface of the appliance (https://<hostname>:5480) for the first time, you might see an error saying: OS Configuration Phase has failed. Please check the log at /opt/vmware/var/log/firstboot for more details on the failure before redeploying this appliance node. For reference, this is what one expects [...]

Error while joining machine to domain: Logon Failure: The target account name is incorrect

By Ather Beg|2017-01-04T09:36:57+00:00January 4th, 2017|Active Directory|4 Comments

While rejoining one of my machines to the domain, I saw the following error: The following error occurred attempting to join the domain Logon Failure: The target account name is incorrect which I am sure you can guess, was completely wrong as I've being using the domain and the account in question for years. Clearly, something [...]

Running an Active Directory forest on static BIND DNS infrastructure

By Ather Beg|2016-12-11T15:25:08+00:00October 31st, 2010|Active Directory|0 Comments

There have been a few instances in the last few years when people have gasped at my revelation that we run our Active Directory on a static BIND DNS infrastructure. Nobody expects anyone to run Active Directory on BIND DNS - let alone a static one. However, it is indeed possible to run such an [...]