AD over a WAN

[lcohen999]

We are rolling out an AD server over a LAN extention/T1.

We are going to use one server to handle both the LAN and the WAN, are
there any special considerations that we should be aware of as we roll
this out (special DNS settings, etc)

Thank you all in advance

 

[Denis Wong @ Hong Kong]

Hi,

I do not quite understand exactly what you are asking.

But talking about DNS I think this is almost the most important part in AD.
Many people did it in wrong way. They always put their ISP dns into their
pc/server tcpip setup.

You should point all your pc/server to your own internal AD DNS server, and
then in your DNS server forward the requests to your ISP DNS server.

br,
Denis

We are rolling out an AD server over a LAN extention/T1.

We are going to use one server to handle both the LAN and the WAN, are
there any special considerations that we should be aware of as we roll
this out (special DNS settings, etc)

Thank you all in advance

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[lcohen999]

Hi,

I do not quite understand exactly what you are asking.

But talking about DNS I think this is almost the most
important part in AD.
Many people did it in wrong way. They always put their ISP dns
into their
pc/server tcpip setup.

You should point all your pc/server to your own internal AD
DNS server, and
then in your DNS server forward the requests to your ISP DNS
server.

br,
Denis

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Sorry, here is what I mean

our AD server is on IP rage 192.168.0.x (for example)
at another location, the IP range is 192.168.1.x (we are using a LAN
extention for the two networks) We are only using one AD server.
So basically, the IP setup would look like this:

192.168.1.XXX (for a workstation)
255.255.255.0
192.168.1.1 (gateway)
192.168.0.1 (DNS)

is that correct?

 

[Denis Wong @ Hong Kong]

Hi,

I think so, if you do not have local DNS server for your remote LAN.

br,
Denis