Re: DNS .local vs .com

From: Kevin D. Goodknecht [MVP] (admin_at_nospam.LSAOL.COM)
Date: 03/12/04 

Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 21:36:06 -0600

In news:b82301c407e1$326fcbc0$a401280a@phx.gbl,
ronf@gbftech.com <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> posted a question
Then Kevin replied below:
> Customer has a Win2k3 AD/DNS. Name is abc.local. The
> Companies web site is in the DMZ of the firewall and is
> www.abc.com.
>
> I need to add an entry to the DNS so that the PCs will
> resolve www.abc.com directly across to the DMZ's private
> IP, not the public IP.
>
> Also, i want to create some other names such as
> server1.abc.com and server2.abc.com that could be in the
> private side of the firewall or in the DMZ.
>
> I just don't know how to modify the DNS or the
> terminology. I know how to tell the ISP what I want...
> All these are public server and the ISP does have records
> pointing to them with public IP's. (or will have) I use 1
> to 1 nat to get them through the firewall.
>
> What records do i need to use ?
> Thanks in advance...

You can add a zone named abc.com, but you would have to add all the records
needed to access all servers internal and external.

I suggest you add zones with the FQDN of the servers you need access with
private addresses. i.e.... create zones named:
www.abc.com
server1.abc.com
server2.abc.com
Then in each of these zones create one blank host with the private IP of the
servers/sites
Doing it this way, the names will not conflict with other external servers
in abc.com. 

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