DNS entry

[Mike]

I have a new Win2K server, with AD, and IP forwarders to
an ISP. I was told by an IT tech at Microsoft that the
primary DNS for the clients had to be the AD server,
which works fine. The problem is that the email for the
company is hosted outside the private network, so in the
Outlook settings, I have the pop3 and smtp servers to be
smtp.domain.com. I guess having AD and DNS internally,
this resolution is looking for an internal server,
however, the server is a public IP address. How do I
make a DNS entry for smtp.domain.com to point to a
specific IP address? Thank you.

 

[Kevin D. Goodknecht [MVP]]

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I have a new Win2K server, with AD, and IP forwarders to
an ISP. I was told by an IT tech at Microsoft that the
primary DNS for the clients had to be the AD server,
which works fine. The problem is that the email for the
company is hosted outside the private network, so in the
Outlook settings, I have the pop3 and SMTP servers to be
smtp.domain.com. I guess having AD and DNS internally,
this resolution is looking for an internal server,
however, the server is a public IP address. How do I
make a DNS entry for smtp.domain.com to point to a
specific IP address? Thank you.

In the Forward lookup zone for your domain name in your local DNS server,
create a new host named smtp, www, or whatever with the IP of the server you
need access to.
BTW, just for info, all internal domain members *must* use the internal DNS
server *only* do not use your ISP's DNS in any position. You will be setting
yourself up for errors if you do not follow this must.

 

[Michael Johnston [MSFT]]

Just create a couple host records within domain.com named SMTP and pop3 and point them to the correct external IP address.
That's it.

Thank you,
Mike Johnston
Microsoft Network Support
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