Domain Name Change

[Jodie]

I'll try to explain this with as little confusion as
possible. OK, We have just recently installed Windows
2000 Server on most of our servers in the office and we
made our Domain name dickey-john.com, that's our company
name. Well, here's the problem. We also have an external
address of dickey-john.com which we use for our email and
internet access, that domain was setup by our ISP. We are
now running into problems with internal computers talking
to our servers because it keeps looking outside the
company to resolve the IP address since both domains are
the same. Is there an "easy" =) way to change our
internal domain name from dickey-john.com to something
different so we don't have to keep fighting this problem?
Or, is there something else I need to do to keep this from
happening? We are in the process of installing Oracle on
our servers and our 95/98 users cannot get to the oracle
server because they are hitting the outside domain and
trying to resolve the name first.

Any help would be great!
Jodie

 

[Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]]

In Jodie <[email protected]>
posted their concerrns,
Then Kevin D4Dad added his reply at the bottom.

I'll try to explain this with as little confusion as
possible. OK, We have just recently installed Windows
2000 Server on most of our servers in the office and we
made our Domain name dickey-john.com, that's our company
name. Well, here's the problem. We also have an external
address of dickey-john.com which we use for our email and
internet access, that domain was setup by our ISP. We are
now running into problems with internal computers talking
to our servers because it keeps looking outside the
company to resolve the IP address since both domains are
the same. Is there an "easy" =) way to change our
internal domain name from dickey-john.com to something
different so we don't have to keep fighting this problem?
Or, is there something else I need to do to keep this from
happening? We are in the process of installing Oracle on
our servers and our 95/98 users cannot get to the oracle
server because they are hitting the outside domain and
trying to resolve the name first.

Any help would be great!
Jodie

In your internal Forward Lookup zone for dickey-john.com you will need to
create new hosts for www, mail, and what ever host name you need and give
the record the public IP address of the server.
A delegation for those names are more reliable and the delegation must point
to the authoritative DNS for you external domain.

So far as changing the internal domain name the answer is no you cannot
rename a Win2k doamin you would have to use DCPROMO and demote all DCs back
to standalone servers, of course that means saying goodbye to all user and
computer accounts.

 

[Weltto]

In Jodie <[email protected]>
posted their concerrns,
So far as changing the internal domain name the answer is no you cannot
rename a Win2k doamin you would have to use DCPROMO and demote all DCs back
to standalone servers, of course that means saying goodbye to all user and
computer accounts.

How about if the domain is still in mixed mode and one sets up a Winnt BDC
to the AD domain, drops the current DC offline and promotes the BDC to PDC.
Isn't it true that this will preserve all necessary information to keep the
domain alive?

 

[Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]]

In Weltto <[email protected]>
posted their concerrns,
Then Kevin D4Dad added his reply at the bottom.

How about if the domain is still in mixed mode and one sets up a
Winnt BDC to the AD domain, drops the current DC offline and promotes
the BDC to PDC. Isn't it true that this will preserve all necessary
information to keep the domain alive?

Yes, you can rename an NT4 domain, it would be much easier to set up the
split namespace by adding the records internally that you need to access
external resources.