Which zone is appropriate Primary, Secondary or Stub? Zzzzzz <iscubafanatic[ at ]hotmail.com> 6/25/2007 4:09:10 AM My external DNS is hosted with my ISP but I would like to create a local host "A" record on my W2K3 DNS to point to a local intranet. What type of zone do I create that won't interfere with internal queries to external resources? Example: ISP hosts DNS including web server with hosts www.company.com and company.com records Local user types intranet.company.com into browser, local DNS resolves to local web server 192.168.168.1 Local user types www.company.com or company.com they get the external web site hosted at ISP I created a primary zone but when a user attempts to go to www.company.com or company.com they get "The page cannot be displayed", for obvious reasons. I also created a secondary zone but it doesn't allow the creation of host "A" records, finally I tried a stub zone using the external DNS servers but I get an error message saying "The zone cannot be created, The request is not supported". Should I just stick with a Primary even though it's not authoritative and create a Host "A" record to point to the external web server for www.company.com or company.com?

Re: Which zone is appropriate Primary, Secondary or Stub? "Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]" <admin[ at ]nospam.WFTX.US> 6/25/2007 12:03:13 PM Read inline please. In news:1182744550.975702.123230[ at ]n2g2000hse.googlegroups.com, Zzzzzz <iscubafanatic[ at ]hotmail.com> typed: [Quoted Text] > My external DNS is hosted with my ISP but I would like to create a > local host "A" record on my W2K3 DNS to point to a local intranet. > What type of zone do I create that won't interfere with internal > queries to external resources? > > Example: > > ISP hosts DNS including web server with hosts www.company.com and > company.com records > Local user types intranet.company.com into browser, local DNS resolves > to local web server 192.168.168.1 > Local user types www.company.com or company.com they get the external > web site hosted at ISP > > I created a primary zone but when a user attempts to go to > www.company.com or company.com they get "The page cannot be > displayed", for obvious reasons. I also created a secondary zone but > it doesn't allow the creation of host "A" records, finally I tried a > stub zone using the external DNS servers but I get an error message > saying "The zone > cannot be created, The request is not supported". > > Should I just stick with a Primary even though it's not authoritative > and create a Host "A" record to point to the external web server for > www.company.com or company.com? If company.com is your Active Directory domain name, you will need to create a host named www in the company.com zone and give it the IP address of the web site hosted at your hosting provider. You cannot access the site by using http://company.com , the address for that name must resolve to the IP address on all domain controllers that file sharing enabled. You can however, create a web site in IIS on all domain controllers that redirect that URL to http://www.company.com on the Home Directory tab of the website properties. -- Best regards, Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP] Hope This Helps =================================== When responding to posts, please "Reply to Group" via your newsreader so that others may learn and benefit from your issue, to respond directly to me remove the nospam. from my email address. =================================== http://www.lonestaramerica.com/ http://support.wftx.us/ http://message.wftx.us/ =================================== Use Outlook Express?... Get OE_Quotefix: It will strip signature out and more http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/ =================================== Keep a back up of your OE settings and folders with OEBackup: http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/Default.aspx ===================================

Re: Which zone is appropriate Primary, Secondary or Stub? Zzzzzz <iscubafanatic[ at ]hotmail.com> 6/26/2007 1:03:32 PM Hi Kevin, Thanks for the help. One thing I should have mentioned is that the local domain is company.local not .com. On Jun 25, 8:03 am, "Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]" <a...[ at ]nospam.WFTX.US> wrote: [Quoted Text] > Read inline please. > > Innews:1182744550.975702.123230[ at ]n2g2000hse.googlegroups.com, > Zzzzzz <iscubafana...[ at ]hotmail.com> typed: > > > > > My external DNS is hosted with my ISP but I would like to create a > > local host "A" record on my W2K3 DNS to point to a local intranet. > > What type of zone do I create that won't interfere with internal > > queries to external resources? > > > Example: > > > ISP hosts DNS including web server with hostswww.company.comand > > company.com records > > Local user types intranet.company.com into browser, local DNS resolves > > to local web server 192.168.168.1 > > Local user typeswww.company.comor company.com they get the external > > web site hosted at ISP > > > I created a primary zone but when a user attempts to go to > >www.company.comor company.com they get "The page cannot be > > displayed", for obvious reasons. I also created a secondary zone but > > it doesn't allow the creation of host "A" records, finally I tried a > > stub zone using the external DNS servers but I get an error message > > saying "The zone > > cannot be created, The request is not supported". > > > Should I just stick with a Primary even though it's not authoritative > > and create a Host "A" record to point to the external web server for > >www.company.comor company.com? > > If company.com is your Active Directory domain name, you will need to create > a host named www in the company.com zone and give it the IP address of the > web site hosted at your hosting provider. You cannot access the site by > usinghttp://company.com, the address for that name must resolve to the IP > address on all domain controllers that file sharing enabled. You can > however, create a web site in IIS on all domain controllers that redirect > that URL tohttp://www.company.comon the Home Directory tab of the website > properties. > > -- > Best regards, > Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP] > Hope This Helps > > =================================== > When responding to posts, please "Reply to Group" > via your newsreader so that others may learn and > benefit from your issue, to respond directly to > me remove the nospam. from my email address. > ===================================http://www.lonestaramerica.com/http://support.wftx.us/http://message.wftx.us/ > =================================== > Use Outlook Express?... Get OE_Quotefix: > It will strip signature out and morehttp://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/ > =================================== > Keep a back up of your OE settings and folders > with OEBackup:http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/Default.aspx > ===================================

Re: Which zone is appropriate Primary, Secondary or Stub? "Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]" <admin[ at ]nospam.WFTX.US> 6/26/2007 1:32:40 PM Read inline please. In news:1182863012.967300.264070[ at ]c77g2000hse.googlegroups.com, Zzzzzz <iscubafanatic[ at ]hotmail.com> typed: [Quoted Text] > Hi Kevin, > > Thanks for the help. > > One thing I should have mentioned is that the local domain is > company.local not .com. Doh! I guess I wasn't awake yet. Create a new Forward Lookup Zone, name the zone intranet.company.com, in the intranet.company.com zone create one new host record, leave the name field blank and give it the local IP of the web server. -- Best regards, Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP] Hope This Helps =================================== When responding to posts, please "Reply to Group" via your newsreader so that others may learn and benefit from your issue, to respond directly to me remove the nospam. from my email address. =================================== http://www.lonestaramerica.com/ http://support.wftx.us/ http://message.wftx.us/ =================================== Use Outlook Express?... Get OE_Quotefix: It will strip signature out and more http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/ =================================== Keep a back up of your OE settings and folders with OEBackup: http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/Default.aspx ===================================