Badly setup server

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Have discovered that my company server is set up to resolve
local.<companyname>.co.uk and <companyname.co.uk and .co.uk (<companyname> is
obvously to hide real company name)
On top of this the dns setting for both primary and secondary dns point to
and internet address 84.x.x.x instead of our internal server 192.x.x.x.
I can only suspect this is because of the .co.uk name resolution which means
if dns was set correctly our server would never address the internet for any
..co.uk queries.
My questions are how do i reset the name resolution and then how do i reset
the dns settings.
HELP PLEASE. Any advice would be useful.
 
Are you still trying to hide the company domain name? Can you explain
exactly what you mean by this?

-Frank
 
Should have made myself clearer. Basically did not want to publish our
company name on this website, hence <companyname>. the real domain name on
our server obviously includes our real company name. Thanks for replying.
 
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Andy Dowell said:
See my profile for more info.
Have discovered that my company server is set up to resolve
local.<companyname>.co.uk and <companyname.co.uk and .co.uk
(<companyname> is obvously to hide real company name)
On top of this the dns setting for both primary and secondary dns
point to and internet address 84.x.x.x instead of our internal server
192.x.x.x.
I can only suspect this is because of the .co.uk name resolution
which means if dns was set correctly our server would never address
the internet for any .co.uk queries.
My questions are how do i reset the name resolution and then how do i
reset the dns settings.
HELP PLEASE. Any advice would be useful.
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One rule of thumb with AD and DNS: Never use an external DNS server or any
server that doesn't have a resolution path to the internal AD zone name.
Only the internal DNS server or a server that can resolve your AD zone data
must be used on your DCs, member servers and clients. If you want to
properly set this up, set only the internal DNS addresses on all machines.
If the company domain name is the same as the external domain name, then you
can create the necessary records internally to get to the external website,
eg. create an A record called www and provide the external IP. If the
webserver is on your local subnet, provide the internal private IP to access
it.

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Regards,
Ace

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