Guest muriwai Posted March 25, 2008 Posted March 25, 2008 Hi, I have the company.com Internet domain which serves the company's public Internet website at http://www.company.com. The authoritative name server for this domain is somewhere in the Internet. Now I installed a new domain controller on Windows Server 2008 for a new internal domain which I called company.com as well. I guess it wasn't a wise decision because if I type http://www.company.com on a machine that belongs to the internal domain, the address can't be resolved. It's understandable because the domain controller has the DNS Server installed which knows nothing about the external company.com domain. Is it possible to configure the internal DNS server to properly handle both the internal and external domain names? For example, I want all local DNS queries which can't be resolved locally (like http://www.company.com) to be forwarded to the external DNS server. Thanks, John
Guest Jabez Gan [MVP] Posted March 25, 2008 Posted March 25, 2008 Re: External and internal domains and DNS Server Hi John, Yes in fact, you should create an internal DNS only for your internal computers to resolve the hostnames. And you dont want to have your local DNS queries resolved by your external DNS server - you can have two copies - external and internal copies of DNS. -- Jabez Gan Microsoft MVP: Windows Server http://www.msblog.org "muriwai" <muriwai@nospam.nospam> wrote in message news:OZGx5IhjIHA.2396@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > Hi, > > I have the company.com Internet domain which serves the company's public > Internet website at http://www.company.com. The authoritative name server for > this domain is somewhere in the Internet. > > Now I installed a new domain controller on Windows Server 2008 for a new > internal domain which I called company.com as well. I guess it wasn't a > wise decision because if I type http://www.company.com on a machine that belongs > to the internal domain, the address can't be resolved. > > It's understandable because the domain controller has the DNS Server > installed which knows nothing about the external company.com domain. > > Is it possible to configure the internal DNS server to properly handle > both the internal and external domain names? For example, I want all local > DNS queries which can't be resolved locally (like http://www.company.com) to be > forwarded to the external DNS server. > > Thanks, > John >
Guest cristalink Posted March 26, 2008 Posted March 26, 2008 Re: External and internal domains and DNS Server I ended up renaming the domain with RENDOM. Thanks "Jabez Gan [MVP]" <mingteikg@blizNOSPAMhosting.com> wrote in message news:3FCB474F-4DF0-4C0C-B754-4BC7CCFC83C3@microsoft.com... > Hi John, > > Yes in fact, you should create an internal DNS only for your internal > computers to resolve the hostnames. And you dont want to have your local > DNS queries resolved by your external DNS server - you can have two > copies - external and internal copies of DNS. > > -- > Jabez Gan > Microsoft MVP: Windows Server > http://www.msblog.org > > > "muriwai" <muriwai@nospam.nospam> wrote in message > news:OZGx5IhjIHA.2396@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >> Hi, >> >> I have the company.com Internet domain which serves the company's public >> Internet website at http://www.company.com. The authoritative name server for >> this domain is somewhere in the Internet. >> >> Now I installed a new domain controller on Windows Server 2008 for a new >> internal domain which I called company.com as well. I guess it wasn't a >> wise decision because if I type http://www.company.com on a machine that belongs >> to the internal domain, the address can't be resolved. >> >> It's understandable because the domain controller has the DNS Server >> installed which knows nothing about the external company.com domain. >> >> Is it possible to configure the internal DNS server to properly handle >> both the internal and external domain names? For example, I want all >> local DNS queries which can't be resolved locally (like http://www.company.com) >> to be forwarded to the external DNS server. >> >> Thanks, >> John >> >
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