so let's say, in theory, I set up my active directory and DNS with a name of computerheaven.com. Now let's say, again in theory, that no computers in the network can access www.computerheaven.com or mail.computerheaven.com becasue they are looking to the internal server (the www and mail servers are hosted externally.)
Does anyone know how to set a DNS forwarder to forward www and mail so it looks external instead of internal?
no.
Quote from: eo000 on June 04, 2006, 12:40:53 AM
no.
I'm not quite sure why this amused me so, but it did.
what you really want to do is make the windows domain a subdomain of the public one, such as "ch.computerheaven.com" or something. when setting up structures for businesses with a few offices, I do things like "ind.frobtech.com", "atl.frobtech.com", etc.
since your PDC believes itself to be the authoritative server for computerheaven.com, it will never forward queries to another server for that zone. you can simply add the A records for www and mail and make sure that they are changed to match any time the public server's records are changed.
Quote from: hattmoward on June 04, 2006, 01:56:27 PM
what you really want to do is make the windows domain a subdomain of the public one, such as "ch.computerheaven.com" or something. when setting up structures for businesses with a few offices, I do things like "ind.frobtech.com", "atl.frobtech.com", etc.
since your PDC believes itself to be the authoritative server for computerheaven.com, it will never forward queries to another server for that zone. you can simply add the A records for www and mail and make sure that they are changed to match any time the public server's records are changed.
so how do you add the A records for www and mail?
I haven't done domain server stuff in a long time. I thought it would come back to me but it didn't.
Administrative tools, DNS, Forward Lookup Zones, computerheaven.com, context menu, new host (A)
Yay for frobtech!
Oh, and I'm betting that swolt didn't do this in theory. I bet he did it in reality.
Quote from: ReBurn on June 04, 2006, 03:25:07 PM
Oh, and I'm betting that swolt didn't do this in theory. I bet he did it in reality.
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Quote from: ReBurn on June 04, 2006, 03:23:33 PM
Yay for frobtech!
if you've got the job, we've got the frob.
Quote from: ReBurn on June 04, 2006, 03:25:07 PM
Oh, and I'm betting that swolt didn't do this in theory. I bet he did it in reality.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
d'oh!
it was far easier than I thought it would be. I set a forwarder in DHCP and it works now.
Quote from: swolt on June 06, 2006, 03:10:01 PM
d'oh!
it was far easier than I thought it would be. I set a forwarder in DHCP and it works now.
You mean it was theoretically far easier than you theoretically thought it would be, because you theoretically set a forwarder in DHCP and it theoretically works now. Right?
Quote from: dazie on June 06, 2006, 03:17:40 PM
Quote from: swolt on June 06, 2006, 03:10:01 PM
d'oh!
it was far easier than I thought it would be. I set a forwarder in DHCP and it works now.
You mean it was theoretically far easier than you theoretically thought it would be, because you theoretically set a forwarder in DHCP and it theoretically works now. Right?
in theory
Quote from: swolt on June 06, 2006, 03:56:50 PM
Quote from: dazie on June 06, 2006, 03:17:40 PM
Quote from: swolt on June 06, 2006, 03:10:01 PM
d'oh!
it was far easier than I thought it would be. I set a forwarder in DHCP and it works now.
You mean it was theoretically far easier than you theoretically thought it would be, because you theoretically set a forwarder in DHCP and it theoretically works now. Right?
in theory
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