Hopefully Simple DNS Question Jeff Tucker 5/28/2007 12:28:00 PM i am trying to setup internal DNS for the following situation: internal AD name is abc.com. all addresses for this domain are resolved internally to the internal addresses just fine. meaning www.abc.com answers 10.10.10.10. there are a few other domains we host internally that can only be reached by utilizing a HOSTS file on each workstation. www.xyz.com or www.def.com. what has to be done to the internal DNS to allow good resolution without use of HOSTS. i know it's noob but i wanted to ask experts to make a point. thanks. JT

Re: Hopefully Simple DNS Question "Herb Martin" <news[ at ]learnquick.com> 5/28/2007 1:13:27 PM "Jeff Tucker" <JeffTucker[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:1C878BBE-0D91-4FB2-B191-7028D71BEF0F[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] >i am trying to setup internal DNS for the following situation: > > internal AD name is abc.com. all addresses for this domain are resolved > internally to the internal addresses just fine. meaning www.abc.com > answers > 10.10.10.10. there are a few other domains we host internally that can > only > be reached by utilizing a HOSTS file on each workstation. www.xyz.com or > www.def.com. what has to be done to the internal DNS to allow good > resolution > without use of HOSTS. i know it's noob but i wanted to ask experts to make > a > point. If those other domains are not PUBLICALLY resolvable (by recursion or by forwarding to an Inernet capable DNS) then you must do one of the following: 1) Hold the zone on the local DNS Servers Secondary (works for 2000), or for Win2003 Stub zonesor Forest wide AD integrated zones 2) Conditionally forward to the "other" zone DNS Servers Only works for Win2003 -- Herb Martin, MCSE, MVP http://www.LearnQuick.Com (phone on web site)

Re: Hopefully Simple DNS Question "Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]" <admin[ at ]nospam.WFTX.US> 5/28/2007 4:17:09 PM Read inline please. In news:1C878BBE-0D91-4FB2-B191-7028D71BEF0F[ at ]microsoft.com, Jeff Tucker <JeffTucker[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> typed: [Quoted Text] > i am trying to setup internal DNS for the following situation: > > internal AD name is abc.com. all addresses for this domain are > resolved internally to the internal addresses just fine. meaning > www.abc.com answers > 10.10.10.10. there are a few other domains we host internally that > can only be reached by utilizing a HOSTS file on each workstation. > www.xyz.com or www.def.com. what has to be done to the internal DNS > to allow good resolution without use of HOSTS. i know it's noob but i > wanted to ask experts to make a point. Create zones for the Full Site name, for example www.xyz.com then in that zone, create on new host A record, leave the name field blank, and give it the Web server's IP address. Some will say to create a zone named xyz.com and create the www record, but then you'll have to also create all the other records in xyz.com. This way, only www.xyz.com resolves to the internal address and all others in xyz.com get forwarded. -- 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 ===================================