Re: DNS Alias for different domain
- From: "Tom Clark" <tom_clark100@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 16:25:11 +0100
I was hoping just to put the entry on the DNS server but I'll go and have a
look at putting it on the mail server as you suggest.
Thanks.
"Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]" <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> In news:%23kyXKL2ZFHA.1148@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
> Tom Clark <tom_clark100@xxxxxxxxxxx> posted this:
>> Our company is comprised of two smaller companies located on two
>> sites. Logically speaking they are seperate with different domain
>> names, but they are connected with a VPN. I will call the first
>> location companyA.com and the other companyB.com.
>>
>> Both sites have their own internal Windows 2000 DNS and email
>> servers. They both have publicly registered mx records for sending
>> and receiving mail, such as 'mail.companyA.com'. For security
>> reasons, I would like to route all mail between the companies through
>> the VPN and the easiest way I can think of doing this would be to set
>> an mx record on each DNS server for the opposing site with the
>> internal IP address for communication through the VPN tunnel.
>>
>> I cannot see a way of doing this however, without setting up a new
>> zone for each domain, on each opposing DNS server. I don't want to do
>> this however, as it will mean mirroring the whole DNS zone with the
>> rest of the A records etc. and this would almost certainly be
>> forgotten when public changes are made to the DNS.
>>
>> Has anyone configured mail servers in this way? Thanks, Tom.
>
> The mail server will need to support Domain specific mail forwarding to do
> this without using an MX record. If you are using Microsoft SMTP service,
> I
> don't think it supports this option.
>
> --?
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> Kevin D4 Dad Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]
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