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I'm in high school and want to learn about system administration, so I set up a Windows Server 2012 R2 domain controller in a lab and created the domain ad.foo.com. I own foo.com and the domain registrar (Gandi) handles the DNS and hosts my personal website.

In my lab, I've installed the DNS role on the domain controller but I'm unsure of what the Forward Lookup Zone for the domain should be. The DNS "New Zone" wizard says:

The zone name specifies the portion of the DNS namespace for which this server is authoritative. [...]

I only want the DNS Server to handle the computers in my lab's ad.foo.com domain, so is putting ad.foo.com the correct thing to do?

I appreciate your inputs.

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  • Typically the forward lookup zone for "ad.foo.com" would have been automatically created by the dcpromo process. It's kinda odd that it wasn't created for you. Jul 6, 2014 at 14:34
  • @EvanAnderson The Forward Lookup Zone is created but I was questioning whether ad.foo.com is correct when I own foo.com and foo.com's DNS is handled by the registrar.
    – ACS
    Jul 7, 2014 at 4:40

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Yes it is. Your internal DNS server will be authoritative for ad.foo.com. Your external DNS server(s) will be authoritative for foo.com.

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  • This is what I thought but wasn't sure if it was correct. Thank you.
    – ACS
    Jul 7, 2014 at 4:36

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