Re: DNS and ActiveDirectory

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Hello hrrglburf@xxxxxxxxxxx,

Let the router do it's basic job, routing, disable DHCP service on it. The DC should handle DNS and DHCP.

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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I have 2 windows 2008 standard boxes.
I have one to handle AD and the other to handle several hosted
websites (public facing).
The problem I'm running into is that the AD box apparently has to run
DNS, and my web server is as well, and unless I tell my DHCP router to
use the AD server as the DNS, client computers can't join the domain.
Am I missing something?
Also, when setting up a new domain, can you specify a non-internet
based domain name? ie: mycompany.local instead of local.mycompany.com?
I've seen it before, and tried it, but for some reason I kept getting
DNS errors.

Any help would be appreciated.



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