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Linux DNS for External in Windows environment

When you have a local domain like internal.com which Active Directory/DC/DNS is setup for, how do you get the internal Windows DNS servers to point to the internal Linux server for translating the external DNS?
Is there a configuration on the Internal Windows DNS servers where you point to an IP or hostname of another linux DNS server that serves as the SOA for the federated domain?

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Daniel McAllister

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gheist

NXDOMAIN is not retried. You need to create infinite DNS loop to mix 2 domains.

Garry Shape

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Sorry I mean, we have an internal domain called "cafenet.com". This is for our Active Directory and Windows environment.
However, we also have Linux servers that serve as DNS for our federated domain (cafe.com).

If I do an nslookup of cafe.com from an internal Windows computer, it gives me the local subnet IP of the website. if I nslookup of cafe.com from an external computer, it gives me the public IP of that domain.

So what mechanism is used to give me the local IP of cafe.com when I do an nslookup from an internal Windows computer on the cafenet.com domain? There is no zone for "cafe.com" in the Windows DNS.

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Garry Shape

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Wow yes, looks like that was it. I just saw the forwarders on the server's properties in Windows DNS.