Re: conflict between .local and .com

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From: fixitman (fixitman_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/19/04 

Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 08:19:02 -0800

Yeah.. on closer scrutiny I found the possys.com entry in DNS and I removed
it. So now that behavior went away, but on most clients I can't resolve
outside addresses unless I add the ISP DNS to the the (client) NICs.... and
even then nslookup dosn't resolve most (but not all) local domain names.

 I listed my server and Client ipconfig /all output in my latest response to
the thread "Losing Clients".

Unfortunately I can't "Remove" the DNS IP's from the client nics until I get
this resolved. Otherwise I'd get lots of evil looks from folks who can't
read their email or browse the web! ;)

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:

> fixitman wrote:
> > Ok.. I'm still having some nslookup weirdness. I have had to
> > temporarily go around to all our clients and put one of our ISP DNS
> > IP's in because otherwise they can't hit our off-site pop server and
> > our off-site web page.
>
> Undo that. It will cause you no end of problems.
>
> >
> > I can see that its a confilict between our offsite .com address and
> > our .local address.
>
> No - if you have forwarders configured properly, requests for anything.com
> will be resolved by your ISP's DNS servers.
> >
> > Here is what happens with nslookup:
> > If I try one of our client machines by typing in
> > "machine1.possys.local" nslookup can't resolve the name. But, if I
> > type in "machine1.possys.com" it resolves it fine. but we have no
> > local possys.com web page.. instead that's served by our web hosting
> > agency. So where might I have "possys.com" entered where I shouldn't?
>
> You don't have a zone defined for possys.com in DNS, do you? You wouldn't,
> by default...everything ought to work. Were you having problems resolving
> names (mail.domain.com, www.domain.com ) by pinging it (even if it didn't
> reply), or were you having problems accessing the external servers
> themselves from your network?
>
> Standard or Premium (ISA) SBS?
>
>
>

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