Perfect, I just bought a used DNS&Win2K and Win2K AD. I have o'reilly DNS & BIND for my Linux box that I like a lot. Thanks for the tips.
-----Original Message----- From: Roger Seielstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 8:40 AM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: RE: DNS Planning and Design for AD You're going to want to look at and probably buy a few of these books: http://www.wiredeuclid.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=books&file=index&req= view_cat&cid=3 I'd really suggest the DNS and Windows 2000 book by Cricket Liu as the only necessary book for DNS. -------------------------------------------------------------- Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Gonzaga (306) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 11:07 AM > To: NT 2000 Discussions > Subject: RE: DNS Planning and Design for AD > > > I think it's a starting point for me to go by. I'm an AD > newbie and DNS rookie so I don't completely understand the > root and production. I assumed you needed one domain for > internal. My only comparison to all this is the Novell 4.x NDS. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Roger Seielstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 4:48 AM > To: NT 2000 Discussions > Subject: RE: DNS Planning and Design for AD > > I'm not sure I understand your question, but here goes. > Rather than running split brained DNS (which we can easily > do), one of our design criteria was to dissociate the AD > domains from the company name. > > Internally we purchased a relatively generic pair of domains > - matching .com and .net domains to be precise - and use .net > for the root and .com for the production. These names have > abosolutely NOTHING to do with the company name[1]. All > internal systems fall into one of those two domains. > > Externally - in other words anything that is publicly > exposed, is in inovisinc.net. This includes all DNS, mail and > proxy hosts, but not our web servers (they're hosted by a > third party). > > Our MXs are ns1.inovisinc.net through ns4.inovisinc.net, and > each of them should at this point reverse correctly. Our > internal mail relays, which are referenced by our internal > domain name, all have valid reverse DNS entries pointing to > inovisinc.net addresses. > > Clear as mud? > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE > Sr. Systems Administrator > Inovis Inc. > > [1] Too many bad experiences with mergers over the last 3 years. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Robert Gonzaga (306) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 3:12 PM > > To: NT 2000 Discussions > > Subject: RE: DNS Planning and Design for AD > > > > > > If you have different names in the inside, what happens with > > your mail server when they do a reverse DNS on it? > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Roger Seielstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 8:08 AM > > To: NT 2000 Discussions > > Subject: RE: DNS Planning and Design for AD > > > > It really doesn't matter how you set up DNS, as long as its > > set up correctly. I think its important to spend the $35 a > > year and register the domain with the Internic, however, and > > avoiding the use of .local, .ms, or other non-real top > level domains. > > > > We chose the empty root design, and have 2 discontiguous > > domains in use. > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE > > Sr. Systems Administrator > > Inovis Inc. > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Robert Gonzaga (306) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 11:00 AM > > > To: NT 2000 Discussions > > > Subject: RE: DNS Planning and Design for AD > > > > > > > > > From the little that I've already read from MS, they like > > > subdomains. Is there another choice? Does everybody do it > this way? > > > I thought a read thread a while back about using > > .local... > > > > > > Thanks I well read your link. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Lum, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 7:55 AM > > > To: NT 2000 Discussions > > > Subject: RE: DNS Planning and Design for AD > > > > > > Try this link: > > > > > http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/tec > > hnet/prodtechn > > ol/ad/default.asp > > > > Dave Lum - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sr. Network Specialist - Textron Financial > > 503-675-5510 > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Robert Gonzaga (306) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 07:46 AM > > To: NT 2000 Discussions > > Subject: DNS Planning and Design for AD > > > > > > I'm finally starting down the road to AD whether my manager > > likes it or not but before that I need get my internal DNS > > services setup or at least designed. Does anybody have any > > links on how to design and implement? 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