easier way to do this than anyone to edit HOSTS file? [external ip address] [mail web]

admin / July 3rd, 2010/ Posted in Networking / No Comments »

Q: Our Windows domain is xyz.com (fictional) .
our domain for email / web is yyy.com

Our main website is hosted by a web hosting provider that handles DNS for that website and our subdomains are locally hosted subdomain.
The on our servers. mail.yyy.com hw.yyy.com and is hosted internally.
What I would do is ask our webhost to a host in the DNS server to be added to point to our via NAT is
then out our servers.

When we type mail.yyy.com I can not the page. It says page can not be found. If I go ahead an add an entry in my
hosts

10.1.1.100 mail.yyy.com

then file it works. But I dont want to do this for 100 + computers! I can not add DNS Active Directory, because domains
are renamed. Is there a workaround?


Re:but i already have a DNS server running in AD

My condolences.

Anyway, if you're AD DNS server is authoritative for yyy.com why not just add an A record to it for the mail host?


Re:but i already have a DNS server running in AD

Re:FreeBSD and bind. Could probably be set up in a few hours even if you don't know what you're doing.

Re:set up a small linux box to handle the DNS for the internal sites using named

Re:have the local users put in the internal IP for the mail.
You can also set up a dns server fairly easily.

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