Len, First, thank you for the reply.
What I initially did was I created a new Forward Lookup Zone in the DNS snap-in that was a Primary zone for commarts.com and added the A record for image.commarts.com and immediately noticed that DNS was not resolving for any other commarts.com records. My choices for creating Forward zones are Primary zone, Secondary zone and Stub zone. My plan is to host just this one A record for my internal users without having to contact my ISP. Thanks again, -- 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 > From: Len Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 11:39:22 -0600 > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] OT: Adding a non-authoritative DNS A record and > associated PTR record > > >> Sorry for the off topic post but I know someone here will have a easy answer >> to this question. >> >> I currently host DNS records for our Active Directory domain on our domain >> controller (Win 2003 with local domain "COMMARTS.LAN") and want to create a >> local only NON-AUTHORITATIVE "A" > > The term DNS "authority" applies to entire zones, not to single DNS records. > >> and associated "PTR" record for >> image.commarts.com while the AUTHORITATIVE commarts.com DNS records are >> hosted by our ISP. I need to do this temporarily while we are developing >> the website and want the record to be available to my Active Directory >> members without having to mess with local hosts files. > > Make the AD DNS authoritative for commarts.com as a (hidden) slave of > the zone on the ISP's master DNS, and forget about spoofing the zone > authority. Admin the forward zone on the ISP DNS to contain the > temporary A record for image.commarts.com. > > That's the forward zone, and do the same for the reverse zone. > > MS AD DNS isn't anything special in its RFC-compatible features. > > Len > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
