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Adam V.
Hello: I have a customer who had another consultant install Active Directory
and Exchange on the same server. They used, as the domain name, BDL.local
and the full computer name: bdas01.BDL.local. They've had some issues with
Exchange, and I recently noticed they never setup a PTR for reverse DNS. I
contacted their ISP to do this, but they need a valid mail server name. As
far as I can tell, the mail server (which is the same server as the domain
controller) is named bdas01.BDL.local. Unfortunately, their public domain
name is bennettdesign.com. I would think the IP address of their mail server
would need to resolve to a server name that has bennettdesign.com in it in a
reverse DNS lookup. Any recommendations on how to handle this? Do I need to
change the server name? Do I need to change the Active Directory domain name
to bennettdesign.local?
Thanks, Adam V.
and Exchange on the same server. They used, as the domain name, BDL.local
and the full computer name: bdas01.BDL.local. They've had some issues with
Exchange, and I recently noticed they never setup a PTR for reverse DNS. I
contacted their ISP to do this, but they need a valid mail server name. As
far as I can tell, the mail server (which is the same server as the domain
controller) is named bdas01.BDL.local. Unfortunately, their public domain
name is bennettdesign.com. I would think the IP address of their mail server
would need to resolve to a server name that has bennettdesign.com in it in a
reverse DNS lookup. Any recommendations on how to handle this? Do I need to
change the server name? Do I need to change the Active Directory domain name
to bennettdesign.local?
Thanks, Adam V.