AD domain name VS public domain name ??? Can they point to different places?

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I have a registered domain name that points to a hosting provider. I
also have an office where I had an old server on W2k running AD under
a forest of office.local. When I installed my new server with W2k3
and AD, I was advised to start over with AD with a new forest domain
name (since I only had a few user accts).

Since I already had a registered domain name I used it as my AD forest
(eg: office.com). Was this a mistake??? The reason I ask is because
I believe my VPN is having a problem resolving the domain suffix. I
try to ping a server but instead of getting a local IP I'm getting an
external IP.

If I made a mistake by naming my AD the same as my public domain name
(that points to a different location), is changing the AD domain a
simple task, or does it take a reinstall of AD?


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  • Re: AD domain name VS public domain name ??? Can they point to different places?
    ... You haven't necessarily made a mistake by using your public DNS name in AD, ... > also have an office where I had an old server on W2k running AD under ... > a forest of office.local. ...
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  • Re: Protected Forest with One Child domain
    ... The forest is in native mode. ... so your child DNS servers can resolve both their ... INTERNAL zone on every DNS server using AD-Integrated Forest ...
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  • Re: Reinstallation Problem in AD
    ... not have a systemstate backup I had to install from zero and it made a new ... forest with the same domain name. ... I could not connect to the server to do this. ... see, when your server crashes the other one doesn't know about it, so it's ...
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