MS DNS help

[PhilTA]

I have an external host address (host.companyx.com) that I want resolved to an internal IP address when inside the network.

The problem (not really a problem, just don't know my way around this), is my AD domain name is not the same as the external domain (companyx.local vs. companyx.com).

So if I manually try to add an A record or CNAME (ex. host.companyx.com = internal address), it ends up only resolving the FQDN (host.companyx.com.companyx.local) which isn't what I want. How do I go about adding this record properly so that the AD domain name is ignored?

 

[nsantin]

Is it A records or NS records that keep reappearing?

If its the A records, then on the server, goto network properties, TCP/IP advanced, DNS, select "Do not register this client in DNS". Then manualyl create a A record.

If it's the NS record that keeps re-appearing (this would be an issue for the public zone) then you need to make a reg tweak to stop autoregestering the NS:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\DNS\Parameters

Registry value: DisableNSRecordsAutoCreation
Data type: REG_DWORD
Value: 0x1

 

[PhilTA]

Maybe I'm not wording this correcty. Let me put it this way.

Can I manually add a record into DNS that has a different domain name than the internal AD domain name? How would I go about doing this?

I want to maually add host.companyx.com into DNS and when I ping that address from a client inside the network I want to make sure it doesn't resolve as host.companyx.com.companyx.local

Hope this makes more sense.

 

[nsantin]

You need to create a zone for the other domain.

 

[sweetme]

Hi. I'm new here so this might be way off base but do u have an ip address for both host.companyx.com and host.companyx.com.companyx.local? Are you using a cisco router? Maybe you can add a static route so internal requests for host.companyx.com will be forwarded to host.companyx.com.companyx.local. Let me know if this makes sense.

Sweetme (Montreal, Quebec) No i'm not
francophone English is still alive in Quebec..lmao