We are currently a NT 4, sp6 domain, xxx.com. In preparation to changing the domain to win 2k I have been trying to set up a DNS server (primary zone) on a win2k member server. The network setup is as following:
1. DNS service and our company website are both outsourced.
2. We run our own internal e-mail (exch 5.5) with external email outsourced.
3. Our internal network uses the same registered domain name (xxx.com) that resolves back to the outsourced DNS servers. The internal network uses a private address scheme. (I know it would be easier to use a non-registered internal name but political considerations prevent it).
So far I have done the following:
- deleted the '.' root zone and set up forwarders to resolve external names.
- hard-coded a and mapped it to the external Internet address
- created mx records that point to the mail servers
With the above I can send mail and browse the net from a client station that I set up. I can also resolve clients that I have created host records for. What I cannot do is resolve the domain name, i.e. xxx.com. Everything else seems to work fine.
If I use nslookup on xxx.com I get
server: dnstest.xxx.com
address: 192.168.16.254
name: xxx.com (with no address resolution)
Pinging xxx.com I get: unknown host xxx.com
How do I make my server resolve to the address that I would get if I used my outsourced servers. I cannot seem to make an alias work for this. I would like to get this solved before I move on to testing dynamic updates.
I have searched the other posts on DNS and did not see a solution to my problem. Any help that you can give me on this is greatly appreciated. I have been beating my head on this one for a couple of days with no success.
Thanks in advance,
Jim
1. DNS service and our company website are both outsourced.
2. We run our own internal e-mail (exch 5.5) with external email outsourced.
3. Our internal network uses the same registered domain name (xxx.com) that resolves back to the outsourced DNS servers. The internal network uses a private address scheme. (I know it would be easier to use a non-registered internal name but political considerations prevent it).
So far I have done the following:
- deleted the '.' root zone and set up forwarders to resolve external names.
- hard-coded a and mapped it to the external Internet address
- created mx records that point to the mail servers
With the above I can send mail and browse the net from a client station that I set up. I can also resolve clients that I have created host records for. What I cannot do is resolve the domain name, i.e. xxx.com. Everything else seems to work fine.
If I use nslookup on xxx.com I get
server: dnstest.xxx.com
address: 192.168.16.254
name: xxx.com (with no address resolution)
Pinging xxx.com I get: unknown host xxx.com
How do I make my server resolve to the address that I would get if I used my outsourced servers. I cannot seem to make an alias work for this. I would like to get this solved before I move on to testing dynamic updates.
I have searched the other posts on DNS and did not see a solution to my problem. Any help that you can give me on this is greatly appreciated. I have been beating my head on this one for a couple of days with no success.
Thanks in advance,
Jim