DNS setup for Small company 1

[eastbr]

Planning an NT4 to W2K AD upgrade. Currently our ISP is hosting our Domain Name (which is different than our NT Domain name) We only have one flat domain, one subnet.

Are there any issues (advantages or disadvantages) with using the Domain name our ISP is currently hosting for us as the New Active Directory Domain and DNS name? What is the best way to set DNS up in this situation?

TIA

 

[criticalUpdate]

If you have webservers hosted by any outside ISP you would need to add a dns record because your probably using nat, and so internal users trying to access external resources in your domain would become confused otherwise.

Other than that there usually are not any big differences that I have seen.

Jeff

 

[eastbr]

So no problem to use the same domain name for internal name resolution as the name that we have hosted through our ISP... The ISP hosts our website, we don't have our own webserver.

 

[cmegha2001]

When you create your dns use forwarders in your Primary/Secondary DNS.... your internal (LAN) PC's will use your dns server... when it cant's resolve it will use your ISP dns servers. you will need to create a host record on your domain zone for your company website ip address.

 

[gman10]

cmeg-

You seem to really know your DNS for/rev zones well. Is there a way I could email you occassionally if need be on certain projects?

Have a great weekend, it's raining here AGAIN!

GT