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Active directory DNS setup for an intranet web site
HOW DO WE HAVE TO SETUP OUR DNS SERVER TO ACCESS OUR INTRANET WITHOUT USING AN HOST FILE.
I have a domain with 3 sites, and 4 DCs. 2 DCs in the main site and 1 DC in each remote site.
DNS is "public.world.org".
I have 2 DNS server (DCs) with static IP.
We have an intranet server in the main office.
"intranet.local"
We are on a LAN and we don't use an ISP.
I created 2 forward lookup zones and 1 reverse lookup zone
1. public.world.org for our domain
NS record for DC servers and web server
Host (A) for each local clients
2. intranet.local for the webserver
NS record for DC servers and web server
1 Host (A) pointing to the web server IP (same as parent)
1 Host (A) pointing to the web server IP (named *)
3. reverse zone
subnet
Some of our workstations don't connect to the intranet.
They have to Ipconfig /flushDNS and ipconfig /registerDNS
Sometimes they can't connect at all
To resolve the situation we created an host file with the Web Server IP that we dumped on each workstations.
Now we are adding pages to our intranet and we have to update the host file on each workstation to let them access the different submenu on our intranet
So, my question is HOW DO WE HAVE TO SETUP OUR DNS SERVER TO ACCESS OUR INTRANET WITHOUT USING AN HOST FILE.
I have a domain with 3 sites, and 4 DCs. 2 DCs in the main site and 1 DC in each remote site.
DNS is "public.world.org".
I have 2 DNS server (DCs) with static IP.
We have an intranet server in the main office.
"intranet.local"
We are on a LAN and we don't use an ISP.
I created 2 forward lookup zones and 1 reverse lookup zone
1. public.world.org for our domain
NS record for DC servers and web server
Host (A) for each local clients
2. intranet.local for the webserver
NS record for DC servers and web server
1 Host (A) pointing to the web server IP (same as parent)
1 Host (A) pointing to the web server IP (named *)
3. reverse zone
subnet
Some of our workstations don't connect to the intranet.
They have to Ipconfig /flushDNS and ipconfig /registerDNS
Sometimes they can't connect at all
To resolve the situation we created an host file with the Web Server IP that we dumped on each workstations.
Now we are adding pages to our intranet and we have to update the host file on each workstation to let them access the different submenu on our intranet
So, my question is HOW DO WE HAVE TO SETUP OUR DNS SERVER TO ACCESS OUR INTRANET WITHOUT USING AN HOST FILE.
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I had the same question but in reference to OWA and terminal server but it applies the same to your situation
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/23048333/Accessing-external-terminal-server-name-internally.html