Re: Active Directory setup

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Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 15:55:38 -0500

MS recommends that you register your Active Directory domain solely to
prevent others from using it. It is not necessary that you use a registered
domain name - eg. firejack.com will work fine.

With a new forest/domain, you must configure your domain controller to
provide dynamic DNS, and it must point to itself for primary DNS. Also, all
computers which you join to this domain must point to the domain
controller's IP for primary DNS. The conventional way to provide Internet
name resolution is to configure Forwarders:

On the domain controller, go to Administative Tools/DNS. Right click on the
server and select Properties. Click the Forwarders tab and click the enable
forwarders box - if this is not available, delete the "." zone. Enter the
IP address of your ISP's DNS server and click Add.

Doug Sherman
MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP

"Firejack" <firejackATbigfootDOTcom> wrote in message
news:418d263a$0$552$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader03.plus.net...
> Hello,
> I've installed the evaluation copy of Windows Server 2003 to help with
> my College studies. Running through the Wizard for Active Directory setup
I
> came across a few problems.
>
> When you enter a domain name. I think I understood this domain had to a
> registered Internet domain. My intention setting up Windows Server 2003
was
> to centralize the administration of my local area network. So I don't see
> why this domain needs to be recognised by the Internet.
>
> Secondly... also during the Active Directory Wizard. It came up with an
> error about how my DNS server wasn't dynamically updatable. I know why
this
> is. Its because the DNS server I specified was the one I use which is
> provided by my Internet Service Provider. So I chose to setup DNS on the
> Windows Server 2003 machine also. I was just wondering how this will work
> once I connect up my client machines. Will they still be able to resolve
> Internet addresses as my thinking is Active Directory will not contain the
> DNS details for Internet website just the address of the local machines.
>
> Any help appreciated :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andrew.
>
>

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