Are you running your own DNS server or a third-party DNS like your ISP? Our domain is a .local and obviously there is no .local domain on the net, it's an internal address only. Set up an A record for your mail server to point to your exchange external IP and give it a name like mail. Setup a pointer record with the same info as the A record and then setup your MX record pointing to your a record. You'll need to do this DNS setup for each domain that you want e-mail going to. As long as the .com is in your exchange recipient policy it will route it appropriately once inside your private network. -----Original Message----- From: Javier [mailto:jleypon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 1:52 PM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] RE: New Exchange 2003 Install http://www.MSExchange.org/ Donavon, Since our company has a domain controller of .net the FQDN in exchange server get tied to that .net. How do I make the DNS .com point to exchange if it does not exist? When I try to change the FQDN to .com it say's domain does not exist. ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp Exchange FAQ: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ ------------------------------------------------------ Other Internet Software Marketing Sites: Leading Network Software Directory: http://www.serverfiles.com No.1 ISA Server Resource Site: http://www.isaserver.org Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Network Security Library: http://www.secinf.net/ Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------