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    • PhlipElderP
      PhlipElder @JaredBusch
      last edited by

      @JaredBusch said in DNS Update Issue:

      @wirestyle22 said in DNS Update Issue:

      @Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:

      @wirestyle22 said in DNS Update Issue:

      Simple case of me never doing this wrong I guess. What a weird thing to screw up. Didn't really have time to sift through it all.

      What do you normally use for your top level domain on an AD build?

      ad.domain.com theoretically. Everything I've ever touched is already in place. Although i'd love to rebuild my families infrastructure from the ground up.

      If it looks like this, then it owns domain.com

      0_1541003666906_37e6ed15-1833-4522-b29e-14a6a5f9fb5b-image.png

      Oh man, what a mess.

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      • JaredBuschJ
        JaredBusch @PhlipElder
        last edited by

        @PhlipElder said in DNS Update Issue:

        @JaredBusch said in DNS Update Issue:

        @wirestyle22 said in DNS Update Issue:

        @Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:

        @wirestyle22 said in DNS Update Issue:

        Simple case of me never doing this wrong I guess. What a weird thing to screw up. Didn't really have time to sift through it all.

        What do you normally use for your top level domain on an AD build?

        ad.domain.com theoretically. Everything I've ever touched is already in place. Although i'd love to rebuild my families infrastructure from the ground up.

        If it looks like this, then it owns domain.com

        0_1541003666906_37e6ed15-1833-4522-b29e-14a6a5f9fb5b-image.png

        Oh man, what a mess.

        Meh, not bad actually. Perfect? No. But small enough to not be a problem really.

        Definitely not what I would do now if I set it up new.

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        • PhlipElderP
          PhlipElder @JaredBusch
          last edited by PhlipElder

          @JaredBusch said in DNS Update Issue:

          @PhlipElder said in DNS Update Issue:

          @JaredBusch said in DNS Update Issue:

          @wirestyle22 said in DNS Update Issue:

          @Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:

          @wirestyle22 said in DNS Update Issue:

          Simple case of me never doing this wrong I guess. What a weird thing to screw up. Didn't really have time to sift through it all.

          What do you normally use for your top level domain on an AD build?

          ad.domain.com theoretically. Everything I've ever touched is already in place. Although i'd love to rebuild my families infrastructure from the ground up.

          If it looks like this, then it owns domain.com

          0_1541003666906_37e6ed15-1833-4522-b29e-14a6a5f9fb5b-image.png

          Oh man, what a mess.

          Meh, not bad actually. Perfect? No. But small enough to not be a problem really.

          Definitely not what I would do now if I set it up new.

          Okay, the masking threw me off.

          _msdcs.domain.local
          domain.com
          domain.local
          ^^Zones?

          Why domain.com?

          When we split DNS we usually leave domain.com to Internet DNS even if Location.Domain.Com is internal.

          Then we set up the required internal DNS FLZs for services:
          Remote.Domain.Com
          SharePoint.Domain.Com
          Mail.Domain.Com
          LoB.Domain.Com

          Application Request Routing (ARR) is used to parlay incoming HTTPS calls to their respective owners (RDS, Exchange, SharePoint, LoB) so we only require one WAN IP address with Internet DNS A records for the above pointing to the WAN IP address.

          EDIT: To get around the AutoDiscover.Domain.Com we use the _autodiscover SRV record method.

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          • wirestyle22W
            wirestyle22 @PhlipElder
            last edited by wirestyle22

            @PhlipElder said in DNS Update Issue:

            Are these Active Directory based domain controllers with AD integrated DNS set up?

            Then DNS0 on all DCs should point to itself only. By default no other DNS server IP entry should be set on the NIC other than 127.0.0.1. Ever.

            loopback address on multiple domain controllers as primary? Contrary to everything I have read. Discussing with Jared right now.

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            • wirestyle22W
              wirestyle22
              last edited by

              I have no idea why I had this misconception. So I have been doing this incorrectly. Loopback addresses on all DC's. I just realized that there is no benefit to anything else.

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              • JaredBuschJ
                JaredBusch @PhlipElder
                last edited by

                @PhlipElder said in DNS Update Issue:

                Why domain.com?

                I didn't set it up. THis is how I acquired it.

                Not worth the effort to change everything.

                Exchange 2007 was also installed on a DC. /sigh

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                • wirestyle22W
                  wirestyle22 @JaredBusch
                  last edited by

                  @JaredBusch said in DNS Update Issue:

                  Exchange 2007 was also installed on a DC. /sigh

                  That's especially rough. I thought a file server was bad.

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                  • DashrenderD
                    Dashrender @JaredBusch
                    last edited by

                    @JaredBusch said in DNS Update Issue:

                    @PhlipElder said in DNS Update Issue:

                    @JaredBusch said in DNS Update Issue:

                    @wirestyle22 said in DNS Update Issue:

                    @Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:

                    @wirestyle22 said in DNS Update Issue:

                    Simple case of me never doing this wrong I guess. What a weird thing to screw up. Didn't really have time to sift through it all.

                    What do you normally use for your top level domain on an AD build?

                    ad.domain.com theoretically. Everything I've ever touched is already in place. Although i'd love to rebuild my families infrastructure from the ground up.

                    If it looks like this, then it owns domain.com

                    0_1541003666906_37e6ed15-1833-4522-b29e-14a6a5f9fb5b-image.png

                    Oh man, what a mess.

                    Meh, not bad actually. Perfect? No. But small enough to not be a problem really.

                    Definitely not what I would do now if I set it up new.

                    This is just a throw back to the new days of AD. MS suggested just this - then after a while they suggested domain.local for the internal domain, and now they recommend ad.domain.com for the internal domain.

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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller @Dashrender
                      last edited by

                      @Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:

                      @JaredBusch said in DNS Update Issue:

                      @PhlipElder said in DNS Update Issue:

                      @JaredBusch said in DNS Update Issue:

                      @wirestyle22 said in DNS Update Issue:

                      @Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:

                      @wirestyle22 said in DNS Update Issue:

                      Simple case of me never doing this wrong I guess. What a weird thing to screw up. Didn't really have time to sift through it all.

                      What do you normally use for your top level domain on an AD build?

                      ad.domain.com theoretically. Everything I've ever touched is already in place. Although i'd love to rebuild my families infrastructure from the ground up.

                      If it looks like this, then it owns domain.com

                      0_1541003666906_37e6ed15-1833-4522-b29e-14a6a5f9fb5b-image.png

                      Oh man, what a mess.

                      Meh, not bad actually. Perfect? No. But small enough to not be a problem really.

                      Definitely not what I would do now if I set it up new.

                      This is just a throw back to the new days of AD. MS suggested just this - then after a while they suggested domain.local for the internal domain, and now they recommend ad.domain.com for the internal domain.

                      MS originally suggested domain.local and stuck to it for a long time. That's how it started.

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                      • DashrenderD
                        Dashrender @scottalanmiller
                        last edited by

                        @scottalanmiller said in DNS Update Issue:

                        @Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:

                        @JaredBusch said in DNS Update Issue:

                        @PhlipElder said in DNS Update Issue:

                        @JaredBusch said in DNS Update Issue:

                        @wirestyle22 said in DNS Update Issue:

                        @Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:

                        @wirestyle22 said in DNS Update Issue:

                        Simple case of me never doing this wrong I guess. What a weird thing to screw up. Didn't really have time to sift through it all.

                        What do you normally use for your top level domain on an AD build?

                        ad.domain.com theoretically. Everything I've ever touched is already in place. Although i'd love to rebuild my families infrastructure from the ground up.

                        If it looks like this, then it owns domain.com

                        0_1541003666906_37e6ed15-1833-4522-b29e-14a6a5f9fb5b-image.png

                        Oh man, what a mess.

                        Meh, not bad actually. Perfect? No. But small enough to not be a problem really.

                        Definitely not what I would do now if I set it up new.

                        This is just a throw back to the new days of AD. MS suggested just this - then after a while they suggested domain.local for the internal domain, and now they recommend ad.domain.com for the internal domain.

                        MS originally suggested domain.local and stuck to it for a long time. That's how it started.

                        Pretty sure domain.local wasn't the thing in Windows 2000 days, that came in 2003 and lasted, as you said, a long time.

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                        • JaredBuschJ
                          JaredBusch @Dashrender
                          last edited by

                          @Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:

                          @scottalanmiller said in DNS Update Issue:

                          @Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:

                          @JaredBusch said in DNS Update Issue:

                          @PhlipElder said in DNS Update Issue:

                          @JaredBusch said in DNS Update Issue:

                          @wirestyle22 said in DNS Update Issue:

                          @Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:

                          @wirestyle22 said in DNS Update Issue:

                          Simple case of me never doing this wrong I guess. What a weird thing to screw up. Didn't really have time to sift through it all.

                          What do you normally use for your top level domain on an AD build?

                          ad.domain.com theoretically. Everything I've ever touched is already in place. Although i'd love to rebuild my families infrastructure from the ground up.

                          If it looks like this, then it owns domain.com

                          0_1541003666906_37e6ed15-1833-4522-b29e-14a6a5f9fb5b-image.png

                          Oh man, what a mess.

                          Meh, not bad actually. Perfect? No. But small enough to not be a problem really.

                          Definitely not what I would do now if I set it up new.

                          This is just a throw back to the new days of AD. MS suggested just this - then after a while they suggested domain.local for the internal domain, and now they recommend ad.domain.com for the internal domain.

                          MS originally suggested domain.local and stuck to it for a long time. That's how it started.

                          Pretty sure domain.local wasn't the thing in Windows 2000 days, that came in 2003 and lasted, as you said, a long time.

                          In 2000, it was simply domain

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                          • DashrenderD
                            Dashrender @JaredBusch
                            last edited by

                            @JaredBusch said in DNS Update Issue:

                            @Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:

                            @scottalanmiller said in DNS Update Issue:

                            @Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:

                            @JaredBusch said in DNS Update Issue:

                            @PhlipElder said in DNS Update Issue:

                            @JaredBusch said in DNS Update Issue:

                            @wirestyle22 said in DNS Update Issue:

                            @Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:

                            @wirestyle22 said in DNS Update Issue:

                            Simple case of me never doing this wrong I guess. What a weird thing to screw up. Didn't really have time to sift through it all.

                            What do you normally use for your top level domain on an AD build?

                            ad.domain.com theoretically. Everything I've ever touched is already in place. Although i'd love to rebuild my families infrastructure from the ground up.

                            If it looks like this, then it owns domain.com

                            0_1541003666906_37e6ed15-1833-4522-b29e-14a6a5f9fb5b-image.png

                            Oh man, what a mess.

                            Meh, not bad actually. Perfect? No. But small enough to not be a problem really.

                            Definitely not what I would do now if I set it up new.

                            This is just a throw back to the new days of AD. MS suggested just this - then after a while they suggested domain.local for the internal domain, and now they recommend ad.domain.com for the internal domain.

                            MS originally suggested domain.local and stuck to it for a long time. That's how it started.

                            Pretty sure domain.local wasn't the thing in Windows 2000 days, that came in 2003 and lasted, as you said, a long time.

                            In 2000, it was simply domain

                            Man - I know that a TON of people did that - but I didn't think that was the actual recommendation. I guess I'd have to find some old Win2K docs....

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                            • black3dynamiteB
                              black3dynamite @Dashrender
                              last edited by

                              @Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:

                              @JaredBusch said in DNS Update Issue:

                              @Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:

                              @scottalanmiller said in DNS Update Issue:

                              @Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:

                              @JaredBusch said in DNS Update Issue:

                              @PhlipElder said in DNS Update Issue:

                              @JaredBusch said in DNS Update Issue:

                              @wirestyle22 said in DNS Update Issue:

                              @Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:

                              @wirestyle22 said in DNS Update Issue:

                              Simple case of me never doing this wrong I guess. What a weird thing to screw up. Didn't really have time to sift through it all.

                              What do you normally use for your top level domain on an AD build?

                              ad.domain.com theoretically. Everything I've ever touched is already in place. Although i'd love to rebuild my families infrastructure from the ground up.

                              If it looks like this, then it owns domain.com

                              0_1541003666906_37e6ed15-1833-4522-b29e-14a6a5f9fb5b-image.png

                              Oh man, what a mess.

                              Meh, not bad actually. Perfect? No. But small enough to not be a problem really.

                              Definitely not what I would do now if I set it up new.

                              This is just a throw back to the new days of AD. MS suggested just this - then after a while they suggested domain.local for the internal domain, and now they recommend ad.domain.com for the internal domain.

                              MS originally suggested domain.local and stuck to it for a long time. That's how it started.

                              Pretty sure domain.local wasn't the thing in Windows 2000 days, that came in 2003 and lasted, as you said, a long time.

                              In 2000, it was simply domain

                              Man - I know that a TON of people did that - but I didn't think that was the actual recommendation. I guess I'd have to find some old Win2K docs....

                              I inherited a server 2003 that was set up like that.

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                              • JaredBuschJ
                                JaredBusch @Dashrender
                                last edited by

                                @Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:

                                @JaredBusch said in DNS Update Issue:

                                @Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:

                                @scottalanmiller said in DNS Update Issue:

                                @Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:

                                @JaredBusch said in DNS Update Issue:

                                @PhlipElder said in DNS Update Issue:

                                @JaredBusch said in DNS Update Issue:

                                @wirestyle22 said in DNS Update Issue:

                                @Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:

                                @wirestyle22 said in DNS Update Issue:

                                Simple case of me never doing this wrong I guess. What a weird thing to screw up. Didn't really have time to sift through it all.

                                What do you normally use for your top level domain on an AD build?

                                ad.domain.com theoretically. Everything I've ever touched is already in place. Although i'd love to rebuild my families infrastructure from the ground up.

                                If it looks like this, then it owns domain.com

                                0_1541003666906_37e6ed15-1833-4522-b29e-14a6a5f9fb5b-image.png

                                Oh man, what a mess.

                                Meh, not bad actually. Perfect? No. But small enough to not be a problem really.

                                Definitely not what I would do now if I set it up new.

                                This is just a throw back to the new days of AD. MS suggested just this - then after a while they suggested domain.local for the internal domain, and now they recommend ad.domain.com for the internal domain.

                                MS originally suggested domain.local and stuck to it for a long time. That's how it started.

                                Pretty sure domain.local wasn't the thing in Windows 2000 days, that came in 2003 and lasted, as you said, a long time.

                                In 2000, it was simply domain

                                Man - I know that a TON of people did that - but I didn't think that was the actual recommendation. I guess I'd have to find some old Win2K docs....

                                I don't know about MS recommendation, but when I was setting up NT4 networks prior to 2000, it was the recommendation from the company on how to setup their stuff.

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                                • scottalanmillerS
                                  scottalanmiller @JaredBusch
                                  last edited by

                                  @JaredBusch said in DNS Update Issue:

                                  @Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:

                                  @JaredBusch said in DNS Update Issue:

                                  @Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:

                                  @scottalanmiller said in DNS Update Issue:

                                  @Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:

                                  @JaredBusch said in DNS Update Issue:

                                  @PhlipElder said in DNS Update Issue:

                                  @JaredBusch said in DNS Update Issue:

                                  @wirestyle22 said in DNS Update Issue:

                                  @Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:

                                  @wirestyle22 said in DNS Update Issue:

                                  Simple case of me never doing this wrong I guess. What a weird thing to screw up. Didn't really have time to sift through it all.

                                  What do you normally use for your top level domain on an AD build?

                                  ad.domain.com theoretically. Everything I've ever touched is already in place. Although i'd love to rebuild my families infrastructure from the ground up.

                                  If it looks like this, then it owns domain.com

                                  0_1541003666906_37e6ed15-1833-4522-b29e-14a6a5f9fb5b-image.png

                                  Oh man, what a mess.

                                  Meh, not bad actually. Perfect? No. But small enough to not be a problem really.

                                  Definitely not what I would do now if I set it up new.

                                  This is just a throw back to the new days of AD. MS suggested just this - then after a while they suggested domain.local for the internal domain, and now they recommend ad.domain.com for the internal domain.

                                  MS originally suggested domain.local and stuck to it for a long time. That's how it started.

                                  Pretty sure domain.local wasn't the thing in Windows 2000 days, that came in 2003 and lasted, as you said, a long time.

                                  In 2000, it was simply domain

                                  Man - I know that a TON of people did that - but I didn't think that was the actual recommendation. I guess I'd have to find some old Win2K docs....

                                  I don't know about MS recommendation, but when I was setting up NT4 networks prior to 2000, it was the recommendation from the company on how to setup their stuff.

                                  NT4, yes. But it behaved differently. AD I thought started with the .local recommendation.

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                                  • wirestyle22W
                                    wirestyle22 @scottalanmiller
                                    last edited by

                                    @scottalanmiller said in DNS Update Issue:

                                    @JaredBusch said in DNS Update Issue:

                                    @Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:

                                    @JaredBusch said in DNS Update Issue:

                                    @Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:

                                    @scottalanmiller said in DNS Update Issue:

                                    @Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:

                                    @JaredBusch said in DNS Update Issue:

                                    @PhlipElder said in DNS Update Issue:

                                    @JaredBusch said in DNS Update Issue:

                                    @wirestyle22 said in DNS Update Issue:

                                    @Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:

                                    @wirestyle22 said in DNS Update Issue:

                                    Simple case of me never doing this wrong I guess. What a weird thing to screw up. Didn't really have time to sift through it all.

                                    What do you normally use for your top level domain on an AD build?

                                    ad.domain.com theoretically. Everything I've ever touched is already in place. Although i'd love to rebuild my families infrastructure from the ground up.

                                    If it looks like this, then it owns domain.com

                                    0_1541003666906_37e6ed15-1833-4522-b29e-14a6a5f9fb5b-image.png

                                    Oh man, what a mess.

                                    Meh, not bad actually. Perfect? No. But small enough to not be a problem really.

                                    Definitely not what I would do now if I set it up new.

                                    This is just a throw back to the new days of AD. MS suggested just this - then after a while they suggested domain.local for the internal domain, and now they recommend ad.domain.com for the internal domain.

                                    MS originally suggested domain.local and stuck to it for a long time. That's how it started.

                                    Pretty sure domain.local wasn't the thing in Windows 2000 days, that came in 2003 and lasted, as you said, a long time.

                                    In 2000, it was simply domain

                                    Man - I know that a TON of people did that - but I didn't think that was the actual recommendation. I guess I'd have to find some old Win2K docs....

                                    I don't know about MS recommendation, but when I was setting up NT4 networks prior to 2000, it was the recommendation from the company on how to setup their stuff.

                                    NT4, yes. But it behaved differently. AD I thought started with the .local recommendation.

                                    We have a .local here

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                                    • DonahueD
                                      Donahue @wirestyle22
                                      last edited by

                                      @wirestyle22 said in DNS Update Issue:

                                      @scottalanmiller said in DNS Update Issue:

                                      @JaredBusch said in DNS Update Issue:

                                      @Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:

                                      @JaredBusch said in DNS Update Issue:

                                      @Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:

                                      @scottalanmiller said in DNS Update Issue:

                                      @Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:

                                      @JaredBusch said in DNS Update Issue:

                                      @PhlipElder said in DNS Update Issue:

                                      @JaredBusch said in DNS Update Issue:

                                      @wirestyle22 said in DNS Update Issue:

                                      @Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:

                                      @wirestyle22 said in DNS Update Issue:

                                      Simple case of me never doing this wrong I guess. What a weird thing to screw up. Didn't really have time to sift through it all.

                                      What do you normally use for your top level domain on an AD build?

                                      ad.domain.com theoretically. Everything I've ever touched is already in place. Although i'd love to rebuild my families infrastructure from the ground up.

                                      If it looks like this, then it owns domain.com

                                      0_1541003666906_37e6ed15-1833-4522-b29e-14a6a5f9fb5b-image.png

                                      Oh man, what a mess.

                                      Meh, not bad actually. Perfect? No. But small enough to not be a problem really.

                                      Definitely not what I would do now if I set it up new.

                                      This is just a throw back to the new days of AD. MS suggested just this - then after a while they suggested domain.local for the internal domain, and now they recommend ad.domain.com for the internal domain.

                                      MS originally suggested domain.local and stuck to it for a long time. That's how it started.

                                      Pretty sure domain.local wasn't the thing in Windows 2000 days, that came in 2003 and lasted, as you said, a long time.

                                      In 2000, it was simply domain

                                      Man - I know that a TON of people did that - but I didn't think that was the actual recommendation. I guess I'd have to find some old Win2K docs....

                                      I don't know about MS recommendation, but when I was setting up NT4 networks prior to 2000, it was the recommendation from the company on how to setup their stuff.

                                      NT4, yes. But it behaved differently. AD I thought started with the .local recommendation.

                                      We have a .local here

                                      same

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                                      • DonahueD
                                        Donahue
                                        last edited by

                                        man, after reading all this, I am pretty sure my DNS is not correct.

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                                        • wirestyle22W
                                          wirestyle22
                                          last edited by wirestyle22

                                          I'm just curious--what is it that we could prevent from occurring by putting DC2 first for DNS in DC1? In what scenario would we fail a lookup on ourself but succeed with a lookup? If replication is occurring they are the same. If replication is not occurring there is no guarantee that DC2 will have what you need vs. DC1.

                                          Idk what I thought this for so long

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                                          • PhlipElderP
                                            PhlipElder @Dashrender
                                            last edited by

                                            @Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:

                                            @JaredBusch said in DNS Update Issue:

                                            @PhlipElder said in DNS Update Issue:

                                            @JaredBusch said in DNS Update Issue:

                                            @wirestyle22 said in DNS Update Issue:

                                            @Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:

                                            @wirestyle22 said in DNS Update Issue:

                                            Simple case of me never doing this wrong I guess. What a weird thing to screw up. Didn't really have time to sift through it all.

                                            What do you normally use for your top level domain on an AD build?

                                            ad.domain.com theoretically. Everything I've ever touched is already in place. Although i'd love to rebuild my families infrastructure from the ground up.

                                            If it looks like this, then it owns domain.com

                                            0_1541003666906_37e6ed15-1833-4522-b29e-14a6a5f9fb5b-image.png

                                            Oh man, what a mess.

                                            Meh, not bad actually. Perfect? No. But small enough to not be a problem really.

                                            Definitely not what I would do now if I set it up new.

                                            This is just a throw back to the new days of AD. MS suggested just this - then after a while they suggested domain.local for the internal domain, and now they recommend ad.domain.com for the internal domain.

                                            Being a part of the SBS crew from the BackOffice 4.0 and 4.5 (NT) days, the .Local phenomena started around the discussion of Internet domain registration and keeping the internal and internet domains separate. That was prior to SBS 2003 that was the first product to deploy out of the box with .Local.

                                            Some had to do with the confusion around registering the internet domain that was to be used internally. We used to encounter companies with Domain.Com that did not own the internet domain. It was painful to say the least.

                                            AD was still relatively new so no one really new what to do about internal and external DNS though SBS 2003 did split the DNS for Remote.Domain.Com.

                                            Besides wizards, which were primarily in the SBS realm, splitting the DNS became the norm and eventually the recommendation came about for Corp.Domain.Com with the caveat that the internet domain should be owned.

                                            So, here we are. Most companies own their internet domains so it's a no-brainer to split the DNS for their setups.

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