domin naming convention?

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if my windows domain is Blahblah.com and then i deside to buy a vhost called
Blahblah.com how should i configure my local domain to not think i want to
browse to blahblah.com localy and to use the vhost one insted?
 
if my windows domain is Blahblah.com and then i deside to buy a vhost called
Blahblah.com how should i configure my local domain to not think i want to
browse to blahblah.com localy and to use the vhost one insted?
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Your windows domain should NOT have a top level identifier - don't use
..COM, .ORG, .NET. anything that's on the live internet. Use .LAN or
..LOCAL for your internal network.

If you used domain.com and you didn't own domain.com, you might find
that your DNS server is trying to communicate with the owner of
domain.com's DNS server or other things.

Rename your domain to domain.lan and then created a DNS server in the
domain and entries for the real domain.com to point to it.
 
how can i rename a domain? i didn't type .com when i made the domain. i
just typed a domain name i.e. "Microsoft" it appended the .com automaticly.
 
how can i rename a domain? i didn't type .com when i made the domain. i
just typed a domain name i.e. "Microsoft" it appended the .com automaticly.
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Changing the domain is a total pain on 2000 and before, it means you are
going to have to start over for the most part. When you say that you
didn't type one, you, in effect did - by accepting the default.

I've made several mistakes in my naming systems, first was to select a
domain name of STORM.COM (since I was playing with stormy waters in my
opinion) - had lots of DNS issues with the company that owned the site
STORM.COM. Then I did a domain as just "MyCompany" with no extension -
what a mess, all sorts of problems with DNS and domain authentication...
Now, years later, I use domain.lan for local networks, even when they
provide public access. I use NAT through the firewall to map and for
SMTP I use the firewall to rename everything being sent as SMTP as
domain.com so that it resolves properly on a reverse lookup.

I don't know a simple way to rename your domain at the root level, maybe
someone here can chime in with a simple method. Once you rename the
domain I think you're going to loose all the existing user profiles and
such.
 
Thought the default is .local?
Mike D
Leythos said:
Changing the domain is a total pain on 2000 and before, it means you are
going to have to start over for the most part. When you say that you
didn't type one, you, in effect did - by accepting the default.

I've made several mistakes in my naming systems, first was to select a
domain name of STORM.COM (since I was playing with stormy waters in my
opinion) - had lots of DNS issues with the company that owned the site
STORM.COM. Then I did a domain as just "MyCompany" with no extension -
what a mess, all sorts of problems with DNS and domain authentication...
Now, years later, I use domain.lan for local networks, even when they
provide public access. I use NAT through the firewall to map and for
SMTP I use the firewall to rename everything being sent as SMTP as
domain.com so that it resolves properly on a reverse lookup.

I don't know a simple way to rename your domain at the root level, maybe
someone here can chime in with a simple method. Once you rename the
domain I think you're going to loose all the existing user profiles and
such.
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James said:
how can i rename a domain? i didn't type .com when i made the domain.
i just typed a domain name i.e. "Microsoft" it appended the .com
automaticly.
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Leythos' reply is correct - you can't change this without a total rebuild.
But you probably don't need to. You can still use the same name - if you
need to access hosts on the external "real" domain, just create entries in
your forward lookup zone for domain.com in your AD dns that point to the
correct public IP address (hopefully static) - as in, www, mail, etc. Your
server will always think it's authoritative for domain.com so if you want it
to look outside, you need to manually specify the hosts. This is probably
the easiest thing to do if you have a working domain already.
 
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