Hi,
I have a question regarding DNS zones and Wins. Currently our network is using an ISP to host our DNS information. Currently our network set up is comprised of a DMZ zone and then our local network is behind a firewall with Network Address Translation enabled. After the firewall we are using Wins for the naming resolution. We are using all NT4 servers. I have run into a problem where an intranet site of ours running on the same machine as our newly installed exchange server is having problems since I added our domain suffix to the network properties. The intra net site was installed before the exchange server and before we added the our domain of "jvk.net" to the IP configuration hostname in the network properties of that server. Now the exchange server works when we installed it but the intranet site now tries to go to the ISP DNS to resolve its own computer name instead of staying inside. I have tried using the HOSTS file for the same server but once I specify the DNS zone of jvk.net into the network properties the system switches to using DNS. The reason for server trying to find itself is due to the design of the Web software components (for those interested the name of the software is Crystal Decisions Crystal Enterprise). Our firewall then blocks the attempt to come back in side the LAN (we don't want to open the ports on the firewall for this or rely on our ISP for DNS entries since we are thinking about switching). My question then is if I install DNS into the LAN with the same zone name am I going to have a problem since our ISP is hosting with the same zone name or can I set it up and use it only for intranet resolution and forward all other requests to the ISP's DNS server? The other thing is what could we do if we decide to host our own DNS in the future instead of having our ISP host it?
Any insight would be appreciated
Thanks
I have a question regarding DNS zones and Wins. Currently our network is using an ISP to host our DNS information. Currently our network set up is comprised of a DMZ zone and then our local network is behind a firewall with Network Address Translation enabled. After the firewall we are using Wins for the naming resolution. We are using all NT4 servers. I have run into a problem where an intranet site of ours running on the same machine as our newly installed exchange server is having problems since I added our domain suffix to the network properties. The intra net site was installed before the exchange server and before we added the our domain of "jvk.net" to the IP configuration hostname in the network properties of that server. Now the exchange server works when we installed it but the intranet site now tries to go to the ISP DNS to resolve its own computer name instead of staying inside. I have tried using the HOSTS file for the same server but once I specify the DNS zone of jvk.net into the network properties the system switches to using DNS. The reason for server trying to find itself is due to the design of the Web software components (for those interested the name of the software is Crystal Decisions Crystal Enterprise). Our firewall then blocks the attempt to come back in side the LAN (we don't want to open the ports on the firewall for this or rely on our ISP for DNS entries since we are thinking about switching). My question then is if I install DNS into the LAN with the same zone name am I going to have a problem since our ISP is hosting with the same zone name or can I set it up and use it only for intranet resolution and forward all other requests to the ISP's DNS server? The other thing is what could we do if we decide to host our own DNS in the future instead of having our ISP host it?
Any insight would be appreciated
Thanks