How to delegate stub domain requests to non-Windows DNS server?
Rob Gordon
This DNS server currently provides name resolution for my primary
corporate domain (i.e. company.com). Any name resolution of hosts not
found within the primary or secondary DNS servers on the corporate
domain (i.e. www.google.com, etc.) are automatically forwarded out to
our ISPs main name servers for Internet name resolution.
I am in process of putting a non-Windows DNS server into a lab that we
are building, and within that lab I want to use the domain naming schema
of lab.company.com (i.e. hosts would be server1.lab.company.com,
separating them physically and logically from the corporate DNS domain.
How would I configure the primary and secondary Windows 2003 DNS servers
to automatically refer any host lookups that are seeking a host on the
.lab.company.com stub domain?
Also, is there a way to have the DNS servers tell hosts that if they
only enter the host name, to first look for it on the primary domain DNS
server, and if not found to then have it forward the request to the name
server on the stub domain such that the path for host resolution would
go this way:
Host (DNS Request) --> Primary DNS (company.com) --> Secondary DNS
(company.com) --> Stub domain (lab.company.com) --> Internet name servers.
Thanks for any help you can offer.
Ace Fekay [MVP]
Rob Gordon <Robert...@nospam.dslextreme.com> typed:
Sounds like a simple delegation will do the trick. Delegate 'lab' under
company.com zone to the lab's DNS server. In the lab's DNS server, configure
a forwarder to the corporate DNS server(s) and you should be good to go for
corporate and internet resolution.
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Regards,
Ace
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MVP Microsoft MVP - Directory Services
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Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]
In news:ewMRPbx4...@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl,
In addition to creating the lab delegation(Ace's responce), to resolve names
by host name only in lab.company.com, you will need to create a custom DNS
suffix search list with company.com and lab.company.com in the list of
suffixes.
You can push this list out to domain members by using a Group Policy, here:
Computer Configuration
-Administrative templates
-Network
-DNS Client Select DNS Suffix search list and enter the names separated
by a comma ex. lab.company.com,company.com or company.com,lab.company.com.
(Names are appended in order)
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Best regards,
Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]
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Ace Fekay [MVP]
Rob Gordon <Robert...@nospam.dslextreme.com> typed:
> Oustanding. My question was answered completely. Thank you very
> much.
> Regards,
>
> Robert Gordon
Glad we could help out.