Re: conflict between .local and .com
From: Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] (lanwench_at_heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com)
Date: 11/19/04
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Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:06:17 -0500
fixitman wrote:
> Yeah.. on closer scrutiny I found the possys.com entry in DNS
Entry? What kind? In what zone?
> 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.
Then there's a problem somewhere - your internal DNS server's forwarders.
Try changing to different external DNS servers for there.
>
> I listed my server and Client ipconfig /all output in my latest
> response to the thread "Losing Clients".
Can't find it - since this is related, post it here.
>
> 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! ;)
You can test this on one machine.
>
> "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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