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Hosting your own DNS and creating subdomains?

Anyone here know DNS well?

we have 2 DNS servers hosted in our office, since we have AD/DC, just the standard Server 2008 DNS installation.

We have a url (abc123.com, to which we have pointed to dynip.com to do url redirection for subdomains.

sub01.abc123.com points to 1.1.1.1/htdocs/reports
sub02.abc123.com points to 1.1.1.1/htdocs/purdypics

their customer response time has been less then stellar since their client application does not let you direct a subdomain to a directory URL, only a direct IP, it has been one week to redirect a URL we have to a new directory, with no response and i cant tolerate that.

We have many directory based sites on the same server we use for reporting.

How can i go about redirecting one of our domains to our own DNS servers and then create our own subdomains and point them where i want them to go?

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so create the A records to point to the external IP of our network - redirect to the internal webserver and off i go.. for some reason i was thinking it was more complex then that, not the same as just hosting a site on our side which we have a few of already.

now if i want people internally to use the URL, how can i enter in so the request stays inside the lan? versus going out to the domain reg to check their records then sending it back to us?

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Great info, much appreciated, sounds like i was getting DNS involved from configuring DNS records all day and dynip.com always refering to the DNS records for URL's to point to.