Thank you everybody for your help!! > > It has been reported (though I've not personally > experienced it) that the > > DNS client tends to preference either the public servers or > the alternate > > server ... this being the case, resolution against the zone(s) > representing > > Active Directory will eventually fail. > > I've experienced this and have concluded that putting an > external (non-AD) > DNS server in the clients' "alternates" list for DNS servers > is something to > avoid.
I have experienced the same - that's why I wasn't sure about. > Rather use forwarding to help the internal server(s) resolve > the names. > Right-click the server in DNS MMC, do properties...forwarders > tab, add your > favoured external DNS servers there. The only problem was that I couldn't configure the DNS to use forwarders unless I would DELETE THE "." DOMAIN :-) => Thanks to Joshua Morgan to study Q260371! It seems to work now!! Stay Active ;-) Mike List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/