Re: DNS forwarders - Help!

Dan wrote:
I am running running a brand new 2003 server, domain controller with
DHCP & DNS server. The server can surf perfectly fine with it's
private IP as the DNS server to my own website (hosted externally).
I have my forwarders setup to use my ISP DNS servers. When logging
onto any client, the DNS server shows is correct as my 2003 server
IP, but it won't resolve my own domain name which effects retrieval
of e-mail. I can surf to any other website just not anything under
my domain. Even if I static my ISP DNS information it still won't
resolve.

Can someone please help? I have run through all of the microsoft
documents, have tried all of the setup procedures again, but no luck.

Is your Active Directory domain name the same as your public domain name?
If it is, forwarders will not help, DNS will not forward any names it should
be authoritative for. You will need to add records to the internal DNS for
names in the public zone. Example, for www.domainname.com. add a new host
record named www to the internal domainname.com zone giving it the IP of the
website.
Keep this in mind, your AD domain name must resolve to the IP address of
your domain controller, so the \\domainname.com\sysvol and
\\domainname.com\netlogon DFS shares can be found. Your option here is users
must use www.domainname.com to access the website. In order for users to
still be able to use domainname.com for the website, create a website on all
DCs for this name, then on the Home Directory tab of that website, select "A
redirection to a URL" then enter http://www.domainname.com into the URL
field.


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