Two Domains One Domain Cant See Web Name 1

[Saturn57]

I have two domains set up as trusted domains and on one of the domains I have an internal web site at location //server3:80/sites/..... Now on the domain in which the web site is located I have the aliased //server3:80 as saturn so I can input

http://saturn/sites/...

to get the site. Howeve on the other domain the alias saturn does not work I can only use server3:80. Any suggestions?

 

[chipk]

I'm guessing you mean "aliased" in DNS. HOw is that info being made available to the other domain, or do you have forwarders or something between the DNS servers?

 

[Saturn57]

It is listed in the forward lookup zone in the dns of the host server

 

[chipk]

You could probably hand out a secondary DNS address to all clients in each domain.

i.e. I'm assuming clients in domain A point to serverA for DNS and clients in domain B point to serverB. You could make the secondary in domain B serverA and the secondary in domain A serverB. Make sense?

You could probably also do conditional forwarding or zone transfers, but the above would probably be just as easy.

 

[Saturn57]

Adding the secondary domain name to each client did not work. Any ideas

 

[chipk]

Ok, I'm not sure what you mean by "adding the secondary domain name to each client" because that's not what I said. I said add the other DNS address as the secondary DNS on each client. Not the same thing. One is an IP address, what you're referring to sounds like you just added a DNS search suffix. Which one did you do?

 

[Saturn57]

Sorry I added an ip address as secondary domain in tcpip set up.

 

[chipk]

So, if you open a command prompt and type "nslookup saturn", what does it tell you? If you type "nslookup saturn.fff" (fff being your suffix/fqdn), what happens? If you get a response on "saturn.fff", but not "saturn", you need to add the DNS suffix in your search list on the client.

Can you please post your ipconfig /all output here?

 

[Saturn57]

engserver.cad can't find saturn: Non-existent domain

 

[chipk]

Ok, so if your suffix for server3 is .cad, try typing "nslookup saturn.cad" and see what you get.

Still post your ipconfig /all output.

 

[Saturn57]

Sorry I did not do that correctly. I get the following response:
Server:engserver.cad
Address 192.9.200.247


Name: saturn.stdwi.local
Address 192.9 200.247

 

[chipk]

Ok, so, in your browser, instead of just typing

http://saturn,

type

http://saturn.cad

(or whatever is the correct suffix). If that works, the only thing you need to do now is add that suffix to your DNS search list on the DNS tab in TCP/IP properties.

 

[Saturn57]

Is there a way so I don't have to do this at each workstation

 

[chipk]

You can use GPO to push those settings out, or, preferrably, you can get your forwarding set up correctly between the two DNS servers.

If you have 2003 server, you can use conditional forwarding. If you have 2000 server, you can still try to use forwarding, but it might break other stuff. You'll just have to test.

 

[Saturn57]

WHere in gpo do I set this up. I have never used this before