You could name it anything you want. You could call it company.local. Or you could call it company.com. If you call it company.com, be prepared to host and maintain an internal company.com zone, which MUST be separate from your external company.com zone and must not be hosted on the same DNS server. The most important point (IMO) is that you MUST ensure that ALL your internal servers and clients are configured to use ONLY the INTERNAL DNS server(s) in TCP/IP. No room for external DNS servers anywhere in your internal Domain, except on the "Forwarders" tab of your DNS server configuration - if you want them to do forwarding. Another important thing is that you should NOT name it "company" (single-label). Single-label will hurt you.
Hope I haven't confused you too much :)
Sincerely,
D�j� Ak�m�l�f�, MCSE MCSA MCP+I
D�j� Ak�m�l�f�, MCSE MCSA MCP+I
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From: Sveta
Sent: Sat 10/16/2004 12:29 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [ActiveDir] DNS naming confused
Hi I have scenario , one server win 2003 std , confused with the dns naming , we have company.com , but it hosted somewhere else mail and web , what I should name my new installation only one server 10 users file server -- Best regards, Sveta mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com 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/
