DNS and internet

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Creative Door

Ok, I have a small network i am creating for testing reasons. I have the DC
with Active Directory...and for DNS it is pointing to itself. Now to get
onto the internet i need to point to my internet providers DNS...so how do i
do this? DNS is on the Domain controller. So do i point it at itself and
at my internet providers DNS?

And i am not using a legit domain name...just made one up for testing....

THanks for any help
 
You do not need to do anything as regards DNS. Your server
should be resolving public names through root hints and
you do not need your ISPs DNS for anything essential.

Your local domain will just mask any real domain with the same
name, and nobody on the public side will be able to get to you by
name, but otherwise it won't matter if you've registered it or not.

Make sure you don't have a "." zone in your DNS. If you do,
delete it. Otherwise, your DNS thinks it is at the top of the global
DNS hierarchy. Which -- good as it may be -- it isn't. And check
that the root hints are loading from CACHE.DNS in the DNS snap-in.

Thats all you need.

Steve Duff, MCSE
Ergodic Systems, Inc.
 
Ok, I have a small network i am creating for testing reasons. I have the
DC
with Active Directory...and for DNS it is pointing to itself. Now to get
onto the internet i need to point to my internet providers DNS...so how do i
do this? DNS is on the Domain controller. So do i point it at itself and
at my internet providers DNS?
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It would be in the FAQ, if we had one <grin>

In the DNS Server properties (MMC) set the FORWARDER address to
the ISP you use. (If the Forwarder is disabled, then you must deleted the
"." root domain created "for you" when you installed DNS.)

Just point ALL internal machines at the INTERNAL DNS (including this
DC/DNS) and have the DNS server FORWARD to the ISP DNS.
 
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