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| djohns 2004-09-30, 7:21 am |
| I have simple setup, one Domain, one DNS server for the Domain, Active Directory Integrated.
What I am struggling to understand is how external requests will be resolved. Beacause this is a root domain there is no option to add forwarders. So if the DNS could not resolve the request it would not pass the request on, eg Internet request.
Should this be setup differently to allow resolution of names outside my Domain?
Hope you can help?
Regards,
Danny | |
| sharpmi1 2004-09-30, 3:47 pm |
| Here's how we have done it before. If you have specified a internet DNS server as the DNS server for the active connection on your DNS server the DNS server service will use those DNS servers as forwarders automatically. Otherwise you can specify a few internet DNS servers as forwarders on your DNS server. I have a very similar setup at home, and name resolution to internet nodes worked both ways. Without a forwarder defined, and with one defined.
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| aznluvsmc 2004-10-01, 9:58 am |
| If the DNS server is a root server then you cannot forward any requests to another server as you have noticed already. To fix this problem, delete the root (.) zone and then the server will become a regular DNS server with the ability to forward requests to Internet DNS servers. | |
| curiousgeorge 2004-10-24, 1:59 am |
| Az is right.
When you delete the root zone, DNS uses the root hints to forward requests to other DNS servers, so there is no need to manually assign a forwarder.
hope that helps. |
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