Windows DC's like to set their address in DNS to also be the address of the domain itself, so our DNS ends up having this, among other things:
dc1.css.washington.edu -> <private IP 1>
dc2.css.washington.edu -> <private IP 2>
css.washington.edu -> <private IP 1>
css.washington.edu -> <private IP 2>

Those css.washington.edu records are totally useless, and they prevent us from using css.washington.edu as the address for any other server, e.g. a web server.

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