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Questions tagged [internal-dns]

DNS that is visible within your corporate network and VPN, but which is not visible on the public Internet.

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Assign internal IP address based on subdomain

I have a domain name, let's say foo.com. I have a server which has a public IP (Server-A). I also have a lot of servers (Server-B, Server-C, Server-D etc) which are all connected in a private network along with Server-A. Server-B,C,D do not have a…
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huge slowdown in network of 40 nodes when local DNS is up

We have a LAN with ~40 workstations (mostly Windows) and a couple of servers. All of them use an internal DNS (196.168.0.4 running BIND 9.5.0-P2) and a gateway (192.168.0.1 running OpenBSD Packet Filter) which is a local PC acting as router. For the…
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Built-in DNS server for Sonic wall?

I've got a Sonicwall TZ 215 that is currently being used as a firewall and DHCP server. Is there any built-in DNS server on this device I can use to map internal site names to IP addresses? I had this when I used DD-WRT in the form of DNSMasq.
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Recursive forward a zone in BIND

I have a VPS with BIND set up. It works well for several months. Recently I want to set up another DNS program to manage foo.example.org subdomain on this VPS. I've setup these in dns.he.net: foo.example.org. IN NS vps.exmaple.org. vps.example.org.…
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external dns to internal dns

I have a local DNS server inside my network and have set up a few A Name records to some of my internal sites (i.e. app1.domain.com, app2.domain.com) and the dns resolves internally and loads the sites just fine. Now I have a godaddy domain as well…
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Windows Server 2008 Active Directory DNS setup

I have to setup a small windows network inside my bigger linux/mac infrastructure. In order to get the windows clients logging onto the domain, I have had to make the DC their primary DNS server, which seems to have worked. I would much prefer to…
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DNS split domain architecture while retaining access to split zones

Like most organizations, we maintain various split domains for a verity of reasons. Due to what we do, we frequently use the same name in different instances of the domain to point to different versions of things and this is a requirement for us to…
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How to convince a corporation to use DNS?

This is not the first time in my life when I have to convince a smaller corporation about using DNS service instead of /etc/hosts files and IP addresses. It might seem silly/funny at the first time, but imagine that there are many administrators who…
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Prevent Server 2003 DNS from caching Failed Lookups

We have a Server 2003 running DNS with Root Hints but with some forwarders for specific domains that contain private services. The DNS servers for the private services are on site to site links, and every now and again link latency or small down…
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Split DNS - Cleanest solution for easy maintenance?

We have split DNS set up for our domain, which causes internal clients to resolve different DNS records from external clients. As it is right now, the two zones are managed completely separately. For records that differ between internal and…
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Local DNS Response Time Problem on SBS 2008

The problem: LAN client computers ping remote.mydomain.com and it resolves to our static, WAN IP Address. It should resolve to our server's local LAN IP Address. The Details: We have a total of one server which is running SBS 2008 on some pretty…
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How does an internal DNS server work in relation to our local servers and domain names?

How can an internal DNS server work in relation to a domain name we currently own? If my company's website is example.com and it currently points to a DNS server elsewhere that points to the website's server, also elsewhere... how does it work to…
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How can I search Domain Integrated DNS Entries

Example: I have a server named server1.domain.local I have lots of CNAME entries in various forward lookup zones pointed to server1.domain.local I want to decomission server1, and have a new server, server2, that is going to replace it. I need to…
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DNS consolidation, how to serve both internal network and the internet

Currently we have a following setup. We have two domain controllers which also serve as DNS servers, used as resolvers by local clients. We also have external autoritative DNS servers for exact same DNS zone, just for servicing outside world. This…
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Pros and Cons of using internal or external domain name for Active Directory

I was always taught to use an internal domain name (company.local or company.corp) for Active Directory instead of (company.com or company.pl). Recently we were thinking that by using external domain name we can get some advantages for stuff like…
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