Re: dns questions

From: Ace Fekay [MVP] (PleaseSubstituteMyActualFirstName&LastNameHere_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/25/04 

Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 23:44:30 -0400

In news:akgni0lhpjtv05q5d0vondo9pv35sl0ijl@4ax.com,
Andrew Hodgson <me3@privacy.net> made a post then I commented below

>> Also I need advice on naming - we have a registered
>> domain, but would like our lan to be completely seperate -
>> will this cause problems? are there pro's or con's? I
>> will not be implementaing a mail server as that is also
>> handled by the universities IT department. But, I would
>> like to add another web server - do the doimain names
>> have to be the same?
>
> The domain names do not have to be the same - indeed, quite a lot of
> the MS provided documentation makes reference to them not being the
> same (i.e, company.com is company.local in AD). I, however, do not
> like this approach for various reasons, but it mainly stems to
> problems with running an Exchange server in the .local domain, your
> web server shouldn't be effected by this.
>
> Andrew.

Andrew, I have a question, not totally understanding your response to this,
if ok with you.

Are you saying you rather use the same name domain rather than a different
name, even with the TLD being different? Are you also saying that if the
name were a different TLD, that it will effect Exchange?

I actually subscribe to not having the same name due to the addition
adminstrative overhead if the AD and outside name were the same. Additional
overhead I'm referring to in terms of outside resource access, including the
LdapIpAddress, which some folks like to use to access their websites with,
which requires registry entries to modify, but *will* affect GPO and DFS
functionality. But in doing so (choosing a different name or just the TLD),
have I ever come across any issues with Exchange 2k/2k3 in this manner. I
myself host an Exchange server with 25 domain names, none of which are the
same as the AD name its running under.

Thanks for your clarification. 

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