DNS and SQL

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Julio Culiat

At the moment, I have only one domain controller in our little company, in
it resides Active Directory and SQL Server. My DNS settings, as I have
found it on this server, point towards the ISP - which I know is an
incorrect practice? I am about to point the DNS settings towards itself but
am just double checking - will this have any implications on the SQL server?
This may be a stupid question but I just want to make sure. Thanks much
 
Not a stupid question at all. You should only point to yourself for DNS.
That's pretty much the cardinal rule with AD and DNS. This will not affect
SQL, but rather may help it.

If you want efficient INternet resolution, suggest to use a Forwarder. If
the option is grayed out, delete the Root zone (looks like a period). This
will show you both steps:
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=300202.


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Ace is right on the money as usual. This DC should only point to itself. Again, check the forward lookup zones for the "." root zone. If it's there, you will need to
remove it.

Thank you,
Mike Johnston
Microsoft Network Support
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One other thing, once you make the change, stop the netlogon service, then at a command prompt type "ipconfig /flushdns" followed by "ipconfig
/registerdns" and then start the Netlogon service again.

Thank you,
Mike Johnston
Microsoft Network Support
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Michael Johnston said:
One other thing, once you make the change, stop the netlogon
service, then at a command prompt type "ipconfig /flushdns" followed
by "ipconfig /registerdns" and then start the Netlogon service again.
Click to expand...

Good point!

Ace
 
You're welcome!
:-)

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