Noob MS DNS question

[Hamish]

OK what I'm trying to do is put an entry in our dns server to make xxx.yyy.com resolve as 123.123.123.123 on our network. I could go round every computer on our network and put an entry in the hosts file but obviously that is a stupid idea.

So what I'm trying to do is put it in the DNS server on our Windows 2003 server. I go into our domain in the Forward Lookup Zones section of dnsmgmt and add a New Host (A) where all our other hosts are... But when I type the address in the Name section it adds our domain onto the end of it in the FQDN section.

Is there something different I need to do here?

Cheers!

 

[Hamish]

No, it's an external site (well actually on a DMZ but not on our domain)

 

[Hamish]

In that case you are trying to add an entry into a Active Directory zone, create a new stand alone zone and add it into there.

Do I add it in the forward lookup zones section?

I added yyy.com as a zone then added xxx as a host in the zone, this made xxx.yyy.com. However then all the other subdomains on that domain that were not specified in that zone stopped working. Am I doing something wrong?