changing AD to a .local

[kenny]

Howdy.
I have configured AD on W2K Server. I named it
<servername.companyxyz.com> How can I change it to
<servername.companyxyz.local>? OR... Do I really need to
change it if the workstations resolve an nslookup to the
server's internal IP address? I have no DNS errors in
event viewer and all workstations can see the internet. I
was told a ".com" AD server would cause major network DNS
traffic on the LAN.
Thanks,
Kenny

 

[Paul McGuire]

It will cause no problems unless you have the same domain name for website
and email. If that is the case all you have to do is add a record for www
and mail to the internal DNS server to point to the ip address of the
hosting server. This is the only things i am aware of. If you use ftp or
any other service yourdomain.com the you will need to add those records in
dns also.

HTH

Paul McGuire