Thanks Ken, My situation is just little slight different : 1-our registered domain is Emmanuel.edu 2-right now I don't have any main domains (referring to kII.kimball.com) so would i be better off just using Emmanuel.edu as the empty root.or add like subdomain for example xx.emmanuel.edu.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Yes, this is exactly how we did our AD implementation. > >Our registered domain is "kimball.com" > >Our empty root is "ads.kimball.com" >Our main domain is "kii.kimball.com" (this domain started out as an NT4 >domain called KII) > >We run split-brain DNS: our internal and external DNS are separate. To >eliminate user confusion, all of our internal web sites start with "kww" >(ie: kww.kimball.com). > >If I were doing it again, I would migrate KII to kii.ads.kimball.com to >simplify our DNS (now we have 4 DNS servers: 2 ADS domain controllers, >and 2 KII DCs). We went with the original scheme to keep the DNS FQDNs >shorter, but there is really no need. The end users don't see them, and >admins very seldom have to type the whole thing out. > >-----Original Message----- >From: Brahim Bouchaiba [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 8:01 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [ActiveDir] choosing names for AD > > > >Hello all, >My company has registered DNS domain name suffix called xx.com. My >question is can I use this domain suffix as name for the forest root or >another subdomain like corp.xx.com for the active directory .Putting in >consideration that our website is www.xx.com is hosted by another >company and that when i 'll set up the internal DNS I will use our ISP >DNS as forwarder .I'm afraid that internal and external namesoace will >overlap.Any ideas please.thanks > >List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm >List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm >List archive: >http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ >List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm >List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm >List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ > > Brahim Bouchaiba Network administrator Information technology 617-7359720 List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
