DNS . zone

[Klean Xhelilaj]

I have two Win 2000 Servers installed with AD. I also have set up DNS from
the wizard of AD. the type of the DNS is AD-integrated. I have a question as
I need to enable forwarding on these DNS, but I can not. I read that I need
to delete the (.) zone but I m afraid that it might hard the AD. Has anyone
have had this kuind of situation?




Also I need to connect this DNS to another DNS server on my subnet that is
in Win 2000 but with a different domain.
So the situation is like this:

My domain is test.example.com
the other domain is: example.com

both of our DNS is active-directory integrated. And they both have the (.)
zone. So i am thinking of deleting the (.) zone in my 2 DNS servers and then
use forwarding DNS to his name server.

Do you think I am thinking the right thing?

I have this problem as I have my mail server in Exchange 2000 and the other
server in my subnet has Sendmail for Windows.
I can send mails to him, but he can not send to me.
the mesage that it gives to the guy is like this:

The server gives this reason: '550 5.7 1 (e-mail address removed) ... Realying
denied'


Also when I do the nslookup from his server machine
I get

nslookup

test.example.com

I see my name servers listed
so I think it works allright from there.

But when I do from my servers
I get an error:
nslookup

example.com

non-existent domain or something like this.....

Can anyone help?
All the best,
Klean...

 

[William Stacey [MVP]]

You can remove it without effecting your AD. You *need to remove it to do
forwarding or use root-hints. Cheers!

 

[Jonathan de Boyne Pollard]

KX> Has anyone have had this kuind of situation?

Yes. So many people have had it that the answer is a frequently given one.

<URL:http://homepages.tesco.net./~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/dns-monolithic-server-as-proxy.html>

KX> I have this problem as I have my mail server in Exchange 2000 and the
KX> other server in my subnet has Sendmail for Windows. I can send mails
KX> to him, but he can not send to me. the mesage that it gives to the
KX> guy is like this:
KX>
KX> The server gives this reason: '550 5.7 1 (e-mail address removed) ... Realying denied'

This is not a DNS issue. What on Earth made you think that it was ?
There's nothing in that error message that even mentions a DNS problem.
This is an SMTP Relay server configuration issue. You are solving
the wrong problem.

 

[Ace Fekay [MVP]]

In
The nslookup error means that there;s no reverse zone PTR entry for your DNS
server's IP address.

As for the 550 mail error, if the guy is using Outlook Express and is
connected as a POP3 or IMAP4 client, then he needs to specify that the
server requires authentication to send mail. Look in the account properties
for that setting. In OEx it's the second tab, bottom checkbox.

The other responses answered the other issues.




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Ace

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