DNS and AD

[darius hambleton]

Hi-
I have a couple questions regarding DNS and AD.

I understand that I can have my AD domain name XYZ.COM the
SAME as my existing external registered domain name XYZ.COM
And I would like to do that because my current NT4 domain
name is XYZ and going to AD XYZ.COM seems to be a good
transition for the few remaining NT4 servers netbios wise.

I have a NT4.0 BDC set to be promoted to a PDC and
upgraded to AD and have a Win2000 DNS server in place and
all servers/workstations are pointed to it.

2 big questions:

1. Does my existing Win2000 DNS server have to be a DC? Or
is it simply givin/updated all AD files/information it
will need when I upgrade to AD?

2. How will clients differentiate my website XYZ.COM and
the AD Domain XYZ.COM? As well as websites like
Intranet.XYZ.COM? Which is accesible from the Internet as
well as the Intranet.

Thanks in advance. And please ask for clarification on any
question.

Darius

 

[stevta [MSFT]]

You might want to seperate your external domain name space
and your internal name. Maybe XYZ.LOCAL. You still could
use the XYZ netbios domain name without a problem.
Since your DC's are likely to be your high availability
machines it makes sense to run the DNS service on this
machines. An advantage of running DNS on a dc is that you
can create an active directory ingrated zone. This zone
type is stored in th AD and replicated to other DC's.
You can create a Primary Zone for your domain on any
windows 2000 server make sure to "allow automatic updates".
You can even host DNS on other OS's but this is more
complicated.
I don't see any confusion if your web site uses
http://www.xyz.com or and internal name like http://web.
You can create static records in DNS for differnet
purposes.

 

[stevta [MSFT]]

I don't see any confusion if your web site uses
http://www.xyz.com or and internal name like http://web.
You can create static records in DNS for differnet
purposes.
Just point the record to the right IP for the web server
hosting.