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| David Lee 2002-11-21, 9:25 am |
| I'm looking into how to migrate our NT4 domain to Win2k and have a question.
When specifying what the AD domain will be (on the 1st DC), should you just
use or domain name (i.e. our-company.co.uk) or use something like
internal.our-company.co.uk? It would be nice to use plain old
our-company.co.uk, but are there any problems relating to this?
thanks
dave
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| Dave,
You can use your Internet registered domain name but how you configure
it will depend on your DNS infrastructure. If you host your own FTP, Web
and DNS you will need to configure "Split Brain DNS" where your the servers
supporting these service would be outwith your intranet out on a DMZ. Your
intranet should be served by its own internal DNS servers and all clients
within should point to them. The Primary DNS within your intranet should be
slaved to the DNS server out on the DMZ (i.e. forwarding enabled/recursion
disabled). If your Web, FTP and DNS are hosted elsewhere the setup is still
similar, just forward/slave to your DNS server out on the Internet. You
will also need to a few static host records for your web and mail servers if
they are external because as far as your internal DNS server is concerned it
is authoritative for the domain so if it can't resolve it will not ask
elsewhere. If you go to the MS site I am sure you will find a white paper
that explains this much better than I have but I hope this helps.
Regards,
DJKJ
"David Lee" <dave@anystuff.f9.co.uk> wrote in message
news:3ddcf404$0$23042$afc38c87
@news.easynet.co.uk...
> I'm looking into how to migrate our NT4 domain to Win2k and have a
question.
> When specifying what the AD domain will be (on the 1st DC), should you
just
> use or domain name (i.e. our-company.co.uk) or use something like
> internal.our-company.co.uk? It would be nice to use plain old
> our-company.co.uk, but are there any problems relating to this?
>
> thanks
>
> dave
>
>
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| Bigmaggot 2002-11-21, 4:25 pm |
| I don't suspect you would need anything advanced so just call it
yourcompany.local (note the .local, this has be assigned by ICAN as for
local use only)!
Andy
"David Lee" <dave@anystuff.f9.co.uk> wrote in message
news:3ddcf404$0$23042$afc38c87
@news.easynet.co.uk...
> I'm looking into how to migrate our NT4 domain to Win2k and have a
question.
> When specifying what the AD domain will be (on the 1st DC), should you
just
> use or domain name (i.e. our-company.co.uk) or use something like
> internal.our-company.co.uk? It would be nice to use plain old
> our-company.co.uk, but are there any problems relating to this?
>
> thanks
>
> dave
>
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