Hi there! I guess you could make an internal DNS and point the internal network machines to that dns, that way it would resolve to your own network. You could forward internet resolutions to an outside DNS and that way anything that is not resolved internally will be forwarded to that server. The only problem is that ppl from the outside wont be able to resolve to your internal machines if that domain name is in use. I don't know if that answered what you asked, but it's a try! ; ) Regards, Eduardo Herrmann de Freitas -----Mensagem original----- De: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Em nome de Neil Bullock Enviada em: quarta-feira, 8 de outubro de 2003 07:48 Para: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Assunto: [windows2000] DNS Stuff Hi, We have a fairly small number of servers here at work at the moment and I think I forsee a couple of potential problems with the DNS set up. A bit of background: We own the domain braytoncollege.org.uk (but it's not delegated to any servers we run, but to a webhosting provider). We have two domains at the moment, one is Windows 2000 AD (student.braytoncollege.org.uk), and one is NT4 (ADMIN). We're going to be upgrading the NT4 domain to Windows Server 2003 in a couple of weeks, and we're wanting to put it as a new tree in the already existing active directory. Does that mean we'll have to call it admin.student.braytoncollege.org.uk? (student.braytoncollege is the root of the forest), or can we call it admin.braytoncollege.org.uk? What would happen if, in the future, we set up another domain called just braytoncollege.org.uk? Would the two subdomains work with it, or would it cause problems? Also, what would happen if all our computers suddenly had an internet connection? I have first hand experience of what happens when you give your AD a domain name which is in use elsewhere on the internet - you get the domain controllers trying to update the DNS servers which have control of the domain. It was a bad decision on our part to call the domain what we did (but bad decisions are nothing new here). What would you guys do to get around this? Or am I worrying over nothing? :) -- Neil Bullock, ICT Technician. Brayton College, Doncaster Road, Selby, North Yorkshire, YO8 9QS Tel: 01757 707731; Fax: 01757 213389 ******************************************************** This Week's Sponsor - RTO Software / TScale What's keeping you from getting more from your terminal servers? Did you know, in most cases, CPU Utilization IS NOT the single biggest constraint to scaling up?! Get this free white paper to understand the real constraints & how to overcome them. SAVE MONEY by scaling-up rather than buying more servers. http://www.rtosoft.com/Enter.asp?ID=147 ********************************************************** To Unsubscribe, set digest or vacation mode or view archives use the below link. http://thethin.net/win2000list.cfm ******************************************************** This Week's Sponsor - RTO Software / TScale What's keeping you from getting more from your terminal servers? Did you know, in most cases, CPU Utilization IS NOT the single biggest constraint to scaling up?! Get this free white paper to understand the real constraints & how to overcome them. SAVE MONEY by scaling-up rather than buying more servers. http://www.rtosoft.com/Enter.asp?ID=147 ********************************************************** To Unsubscribe, set digest or vacation mode or view archives use the below link. http://thethin.net/win2000list.cfm