DNS

[GrimR]

I have a remote server. I am trying to add a DNS record to server.gf.local
This does not work, how would one do it. Secondly I believe my domain shows up in there DNS but theres does not show up in mine, any ideas

 

[FloDiggs]

Is your local domain gf.local? If not, you will need to create a forward lookup zone for gf.local. The other possibility, if your clients have access to their DNS servers on port 53, would be to add gf.local as a domain with a custom forwarder. You can do that in the Properties/Forwarders window of your DNS servers. HTH. let me know if I'm misunderstanding the problem.

 

[GrimR]

Is your local domain gf.local? No unfortunately I took over the network and it has a FQDN. [But I can still connect to my other office, so I don't see that as an issue].
This issue had me stumped for a couple of months.
You wont believe it while writing this, I just recreated the zone add Wins servers to it and everything worked, not sure if WINS had anything to do with it.

 

[GrimR]

BTW still cannot resolve any server names, even nslookup does not display any of the server names. [in the remote location]

 

[theravager]

the names are being resolved by wins, the domain name after the host is just a phantom resolution.

As flodiggs indicated you will need to create that zone or point it to somewhere where that zone is already held in dns unless its a alias