Re: dumb dns question


Wes is on the right track however you need to be careful if you also require
internet access from both sites as the forwarders should normally be set to
your ISP's respective primary and secondary
DNS servers.

However if you are using SBS 2003 or Windows 2003 Server you are in luck as
you can use conditional forwarding based on the domain name.

In other words if you check out the DNS Administration console on each of
your SBS servers and check the properties on the server and then the
forwarders tab.
You should already have an entry that reads ALL OTHER DOMAINS with the IP
addresses of your ISP primary and secondary DNS servers.

You simply add in another forwarder entry on each SBS Dns tool but this time
this will be a forwarder only for the remote domain.

Works like a treat, hope this helps.

Don't hesitate to post if you get stuck

Regards Mark (The Irish guy)

MCT, MCSE,MCSE+I,CNA


"xxx@xxxxxxxxxx" <returnoftheyeti@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I know I should know the answer to this, but I don't, so please help
> me.
>
> I have 2 SBS Servers at different locations. They are connected by an
> IPSEC VPN Tunnel. WOrks grea, I can ping and browse shares on the 2
> domains no problem, but... only by IP. I cant resolve names for the
> servers or the clients from one domain to the other accross the VPN. I
> tried so set up trusted domains, but the "trusted domain wizzard"
> wanted the DNS name of the trusted server.
>
> What do I do to fix the DNS here?
>


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