Re: AD domain name VS public domain name ??? Can they point to different places?
- From: "Simon Geary" <simon_geary@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 00:02:25 +0100
You haven't necessarily made a mistake by using your public DNS name in AD,
plenty of people prefer to configure it this way. It's just that there are
some extra steps involved. There is certainly no need to rename the domain
or reinstall anything.
What you need to do is manually create records on your internal DNS zone
that resolves public records to external addresses. For example, if your
public website is www.office.com you will find that no-one on the internal
network can access this address as they use the internal DNS server which
thinks it is authoritative for all office.com names. Therefore when you try
to find the IP address of www your DNS will look in it's own zones for the
answer without trying any further. To fix this, manually create an A record
in DNS for www that resolves to the external IP address. Use the same
technique for all external resources and you should be set.
"nun" <here@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:mp9791hib03bs3eip3cdnbv9eq7r067ssf@xxxxxxxxxx
>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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