AD Domain name is same as a real Internet domain

[Hawkri]

I am trying to implement my Windows 2000 DC as the DNS server that all my clients use as their primary DNS server (they are currently pointed to our ISP's DNS servers.). I configured my DNS to forward requests to my ISP's DNS servers and that is working great. The only problem is my domain name is the exact same name as a real Internet domain name. For example, my active directory domain name is sampledomain.com and my clients need to access the website

http://www.sampledomain.com

fairly often. Another company hosts

http://www.sampledomain.com,

so the

http://www.sampledomain.com

computer is not a member of my active directory domain. My DNS server works great except it won't resolve that one domain name the way that I want it to. Your help is appreciated.

 

[GiaBetiu]

Have a look on my site. There is an article about the way to link internal DNS and external one.

Gia Betiu
gia@almondeyes.net
Computer Eng. CNE 4, CNE 5, MCSE Win2K
new:

http://www.almondeyes.net

(just started)

 

[Claudek]

You appear to have everything working bar the external website. On your windows 2000 server DNS, create a Cname record called

http://www and

put in the ip address of your external website. As both your AD and Internet domain name is same, just leave the domain part blank.

Your clients will use your DNS which will forward DNS requests to your ISP as you've already configured. If they type in

http://www.sampledomain.com

as in your example, they will go to the web ip address you put into the CNAME entry.



Claudius (What certifications??)

http://www.iteq.com.au

 

[Hawkri]

I put the entry in as you said and it appears to be working fine now. I had some trouble testing it, but I think it was because I didn't restart DNS service each time I made a change. Thanks for the great input!

Michael:>

 

[muaddib1]

When trying to add a Cname (Alias) it will not let me put in the ip address just the

http://www name.

How do you do this?

 

[karlisi]

Put Name record (A) instead of Alias (Cname).

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ECDL; MCP

 

[daw321]

I'm trying to help a friend resolve a problem somewhat similar to Hawkri's. He set up a single Windows 2000 server for file, print, etc., and it also is the primary domain controller. Its name (say abcd.com)is the same as their internet domain name that is hosted externally. He can't get his email from the externally hosted site (in Outlook he correctly put mail.abcd.com) because is resolves to his local Windows 2000 server and not to the hosted site. Does he have to rename the domain on the local server (which I understand can't be done without reinstalling the server) or is there a simpler way?

 

[ashpp]

Add MX records to the domainname

 

[daw321]

Thanks ashpp for the reply. However, their internet domain name is correctly associated with the mail server (the externally hosted one) they desire. (They do not want to host the email locally on their server.) The problem is the conflict with the domain name being the same on their local server as well as at their externally hosted site. They want internal requests using their domain name to go to the external site and not be stopped at their local server. Thanks.

 

[ashpp]

You can still add MX records on the internal domain to point to the external email servers.

>They want internal requests using their domain name to go >to the external site and not be stopped at their local >server.

So your only choice is to stop your DNS being the SOA for the domain. That doesn't mean reinstalling the server, but does mean demoting and promoting your AD server.

 

[daw321]

I think I understand what to do now. Thanks!!!

 

[muaddib1]

Dont see an option to put A record, just Alias. I have done this and cant get it to work.

 

[karlisi]

muaddib1
New Host... will create new A (Host) record.

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Karlis
ECDL; MCP