I agree with everything that Roger says. Exactly correct in all regards. However, I have a similar environment (BIND except for the AD / Windows necessary DNS) where my Exchange servers sit on the internal network - corp.company.com, with the actual SMTP alias of external mail being acme.com. So, in this case, I'm not going to have my Exchange servers registered with MX records on company.com - because it serves no useful purpose.
The MX records, are in fact, registered in the Linux BIND servers to qmail servers that then forward in to Ironmail and then to CA AV servers, then finally to the Exchange servers. In the above case, as you can see - MX records for my Exchange servers would need to be in the external DNS - even though it might initially seem to be that the internal would need the records - because the Exchange servers are in the corp. domain - but send a receive SMTP to the outside through the alias 'acme.com' -rtk -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roger Seielstad Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 12:48 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org; 'Jorge de Almeida Pinto' Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] DNS ? If the AD servers are authoritative for the domain that the web server is in (i.e. its www.domain.com and the AD server is authoritatve for domain.com), then the answer is yes, you'll need it in your AD servers as well. Simple rule of thumb - if a dns server is authoritative for a zone, it needs to know EVERY record you want it to resolve in that zone. It won't forward to another DNS server for records in a zone for which it is authoritative. -------- Roger Seielstad E-mail Geek > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Za Vue > Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 1:00 PM > To: Jorge de Almeida Pinto > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED] '; > 'ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org ' > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] DNS ? > > Active Directory Integrated > Both Forward and Reverse Look Up zones. Wins enabled. Dynamic > updates enabled and secured. > > Host www created and pointed to an IP. When accessed > www.domain.com within our subnets it worked fine. > > The main webserver is a member of AD forest. Only different > is its IP is registered with main DNS servers. > > I do not know anything about the DNS zone on the Linux machines. > > -Z.V. > > > > Quoting Jorge de Almeida Pinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > what's the zone configuration on the DNS servers? > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org > > Sent: 4/2/2005 9:27 PM > > Subject: [ActiveDir] DNS ? > > > > My situation: > > > > 1) Main DNS servers are managed by main network core group running > > Linux/Unix. > > 2) My internal DNS servers(W2k AD) are forwarded to main > DNS servers. > > 3) Do my Mail and WWW servers have to be registered with main DNS > > servers or can I just create them in my DNS servers? > > > > TX, > > Z.V. > > > > > > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
