Re: Split Brain DNS setup

From: Ace Fekay [MVP] (PleaseSubstituteMyActualFirstName&LastNameHere_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 06/26/04 

Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 00:25:44 -0400

In news:21b6501c45b11$ec4ae740$a401280a@phx.gbl,
Adam Marx <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> posted their thoughts, then
I offered mine
> I kind of thought it would be self defeating to have the
> records automatically update because you have to change
> the IP's from public to private.
>
> I'm having a setup problem with this Internal DNS server,
> I created the new zone on the internal DNS server the same
> as my zone on my external DNS and it now points to my
> internal DNS servers private IP instead of my public IP.
> Now when I go to pull the site except from the external
> DNS server all I get is a DNS error where the site can't
> be found so I'm pretty sure I set this up wrong?
>
> When I nslookup the domain name on my internal DNS server
> it resolves to the private IP of the DNS server, shouldn't
> it resolve to the public IP or at least the IP of the
> external DNS server?
>
> My AD name is the same as my external zone that I added so
> I assume the FQDN of my internal DNS is
> Local.domainname.com.
>
> ???????
>
>
Like I said, you need 2 separate physical servers to do what you're doing.
And if they are the same zone name inside and out, you can't create two
zones of the same name on the one machine, as it appears you were trying to
do, unless I'm misunderstanding what you're trying to accomplish. The
internal zone on the internal DNS is for AD. You can't mix priv and public
data. 

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