As I was lurking on this list I noticed a thread "Question about Exchange2Aliases" where .local was suggested as an example TLD. If you have Mac OS X boxes on your network and you want to have them as members of a Microsoft Active Directory Domain then you cannot use .local as this extension is used by some OS X service (Rendezvous discovery service I believe). The TLD ".lan" seems to work and also connotes a "local" area network. We use .lan for our local DNS services required for Active Directory. This allows us to manage our local DNS zone "commarts.lan" without affecting our internet DNS records (on our ISP's DNS servers).
Also if anyone out there is attempting to join Mac OS X computers to a Microsoft Active Directory Domain then check out ADMitMac from www.thursby.com - it works well in our small office environment and is worth the $ if you do not have the time to figure out the ins and outs of Active Directory (which didn't work in the early releases of OS X but may work fine now). Michael Hoyt Communication Arts 110 Constitution Drive Menlo Park, CA 94025 (650) 326-6040 fax:(650) 326-1648 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.commarts.com --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
