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I have a new windows 2000 domain with AD installed What is the propery way to setup DNS.
Email and web service is hosted by an outside company and have no plans to bring them in house.
My internal network name space is XXXXX.local.

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by joe_beasley

If you want your internal users to resolve internet addresses, set your dns forwarders to the dns servers provided by your isp. If your local dns can't lookup a name, it sends it to the isp's dns server.

by jhaas

I would let AD configure DNS for you. You just have to give it a name. For example. I have one called "jcmo.local". If you eventually want to host your own DNS then, you can create a AD tree with the DNS, lets say, "domain.local" then another forward zone with your registered name "domain.com". Since your AD box is now a DNS server you should configure it to forward requests out to the internet. Set you server and workstations DNS address to the IP address of your AD server. This is a quick anddirty approach.

by iktanet0

Just make your AD server your DNS server. That is going to be your local DNS server for resolving local computer names.
In my experience, I had to use the ip address of my local dns server to add a workstation to the domain. Then after the workstation joined the domain, I would add the address of my ISP DNS server and make it the first one.
I found Mark Minasi's Mastering Windows 2000 Server to be of great help.

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