Hi all,

Can anyone help with this?

I run a Windows 2000 network that uses AD and DNS with a
internal domain name.
We have recently been in discussions with another company
and need to now semi-connect our two netwroks together.

We have a firewall between our networks and I would like
to be able to get my netwrok to query their DNS servers.
They also use Windows 2000, AD and DNS.

Is this possible to do without messing up my existing DNS?

I also have an internet connection through a firewall of
our own so would not want to ess that up either.

Any suggestions would be most appreciated.

Thanks.

RobL

Take a look at 179442 How to Configure a Firewall for Domains and Trusts
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=179442


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Microsoft Technical Support

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"RobL" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:7d9001c3e7ea$ee5335a0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi all,
>
> Can anyone help with this?
>
> I run a Windows 2000 network that uses AD and DNS with a
> internal domain name.
> We have recently been in discussions with another company
> and need to now semi-connect our two netwroks together.
>
> We have a firewall between our networks and I would like
> to be able to get my netwrok to query their DNS servers.
> They also use Windows 2000, AD and DNS.
>
> Is this possible to do without messing up my existing DNS?
>
> I also have an internet connection through a firewall of
> our own so would not want to ess that up either.
>
> Any suggestions would be most appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
> RobL

Many thanks for that! Most useful.

However, intially we just need to resolve DNS names on
their network for browsing intranet sites and not really
setup a complete trust between the networks.

I was thinking that I could just setup their DNS servers
as forwarders in my DNS server. Is this not
sufficient/correct?

thanks,

RobL



>-----Original Message-----
>Take a look at 179442 How to Configure a Firewall for
Domains and Trusts
>http://support.microsoft.com/?id=179442
>
>
>--
>
>Thanks,
>Marc Reynolds
>Microsoft Technical Support
>
>This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
confers no rights.
>
>
>"RobL" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
message
>news:7d9001c3e7ea$ee5335a0$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Can anyone help with this?
>>
>> I run a Windows 2000 network that uses AD and DNS with
a
>> internal domain name.
>> We have recently been in discussions with another
company
>> and need to now semi-connect our two netwroks together.
>>
>> We have a firewall between our networks and I would
like
>> to be able to get my netwrok to query their DNS
servers.
>> They also use Windows 2000, AD and DNS.
>>
>> Is this possible to do without messing up my existing
DNS?
>>
>> I also have an internet connection through a firewall
of
>> our own so would not want to ess that up either.
>>
>> Any suggestions would be most appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> RobL
>
>
>.
>

On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 03:11:10 -0800, "RobL"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>Can anyone help with this?
>
>I run a Windows 2000 network that uses AD and DNS with a
>internal domain name.
>We have recently been in discussions with another company
>and need to now semi-connect our two netwroks together.
>
>We have a firewall between our networks and I would like
>to be able to get my netwrok to query their DNS servers.
>They also use Windows 2000, AD and DNS.
>
>Is this possible to do without messing up my existing DNS?

Easiest method would be to act as secondary to their zone, and they
act as secondary to yours. Port 53 TCP/UDP open in any firewall
between you and you're good to go.

Jeff

>I also have an internet connection through a firewall of
>our own so would not want to ess that up either.
>
>Any suggestions would be most appreciated.
>
>Thanks.
>
>RobL