Re: DNS issue's with AD naming scheme

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From: Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP] (admin_at_nospam.WFTX.US)
Date: 08/30/04


Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 12:51:42 -0500

In news:24DC7CED-FA9C-40F6-A1CA-9C8F744B7219@microsoft.com,
JB <JB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote their comments
Then Kevin replied below:
> I named our AD company.org this is the same as our
> external web page, which causes a problem getting to the
> outside webpage. I have placed pointers in AD DNS to
> point to the outside web page, the servers are able to
> get to the web page with no problem. All clients cannot
> access the external web page unless a place a dns server
> external in the tcpip settings of each computer. This
> causes them to log on to 3 minutes even though I also
> placed the DNS local server in the tcpip setting of each
> pc. DoI need to install a wins server in order to get
> around this problem or what else do I need to place in
> DNS for the clients to access the web page without
> maually putting an external dns server in the properties.
> A quick thought would placing a external dns server
> within the dhcp properties help in this situation?

WINS won't help your issue, this is a major problem with naming the AD
domain the same as your public domain. You will _not_ be able to access the
external website by its domain name "company.org" only, that record must
point to the DC's address that has file sharing enabled. You can access it
if you use www and add a record named www with the IP of the external web
server.
Your only option to allow you to access by domain name is to have IIS on
your DCs redirect to www.company.org.

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