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sarah

How do I achieve the following:

My AD and internal DNS name is 'mycompany.local'.
I want to be able use a web browser and type in mycompany.local as the URL
and have it resolved
to the IP of our internal web server.

I understand you can create HOST (A) records for, say, www.mycompany.local
and have it pointed to,
say, 192.168.1.10, but what about domain names like mycompany.local?
 
sarah said:
How do I achieve the following:

My AD and internal DNS name is 'mycompany.local'.
I want to be able use a web browser and type in mycompany.local as the URL
and have it resolved
to the IP of our internal web server.

I understand you can create HOST (A) records for, say, www.mycompany.local
and have it pointed to,
say, 192.168.1.10, but what about domain names like mycompany.local?
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If you have the web server on the DC it works already -- if you don't then
it won't
work completely correctly since the DCs already register the "domain name"
for
(each of) themselves.

If you don't have the name resolving to the DCs already then you don't have
your
DNS setup correctly to support AD.

Make sure DNS is dynamic; make sure the DCs' NIC is set STRICTLY to the
internal DNS server (set), and if you change this then restart the NetLogon
service.
(All other clients should have their NICs set this way too.)
 
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sarah said:
How do I achieve the following:

My AD and internal DNS name is 'mycompany.local'.
I want to be able use a web browser and type in mycompany.local as
the URL and have it resolved
to the IP of our internal web server.

I understand you can create HOST (A) records for, say,
www.mycompany.local and have it pointed to,
say, 192.168.1.10, but what about domain names like mycompany.local?
Click to expand...

You may have to stick with the www record, unless you want to make some
registry changes to make this work. The reason is the blank record (called
the LdapIpAddress) is registered by ALL your domain controllers. You would
need to make these registry entries on ALL your DCs to make this work. It's
usually easier to just go with the www record.

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Regards,
Ace

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Ace Fekay, MCSE 2000, MCSE+I, MCSA, MCT, MVP
Microsoft Windows MVP - Active Directory
 
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