Re: setting up a new DNS.

From: Danno (Danno_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/18/05 

Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 13:37:05 -0800

Kevin,

i have setup my new domains and changed registar to use their dns servers
and point host records to me. in my dns, should i use forwarders to the ns1,
2, 3... or use host a records instead? Also the mx record should only be for
my internal domain or both that and external? thanks again.

"Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]" wrote:

> In news:2AACBCD8-ED52-4039-950A-6EF5E6CCB69A@microsoft.com,
> Danno <Danno@discussions.microsoft.com> commented
> Then Kevin replied below:
> > Hello Kevin, thank you for the quick response. So
> > basically you are saying my domain name for my DC's
> > should be something like HQ.mycompany.com. So my DC's
> > would be called mail.hq.mycompany.com and
> > webserver.hq.mycompany.com? So my DNS forwarders would be
> > hq.mycompany.com AND/OR mycompany.com?
> > Charter is my ISP, We run dual cable modems here. 1 IP
> > is for the www, other for exchange. So on enom i point A
> > records and MX records to my internal domain/ip? Also is
> > asking an ISP for PTR records a fairly easy to get task?
> > :) And how about the Exchange side, so my email will be
> > user@hq.mycompany.com but all i should do is specify a
> > seperate SMTP email in exchange for user@mycompany.com
> > correct? Hey thanks again buddy.
>
> The computer name has nothing to do with how the web server and mail server
> are accessed.
> If you owned the public name you could make these servers know as
> joe.nobodysbusiness.com. The computer names are for Active Directory and
> should be kept private anyway.
> You can also add mycompany.com to the UPN logon suffix in AD Domains &
> Trusts so your users could still logon with their email addresses. I have
> ten UPN logon suffixes set up for each mail domain I host so that no matter
> what their email address is they can logon using their email address, even
> though the email domain is nothing close to my AD domain name.
>
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Kevin D4 Dad Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]
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