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Website and Active Directory domain share the same name

In our network the name of the network domain is also the domain of the organization's website (say, example.com). Externally, people can enter example.com to visit our website, but internally, this ...
-1 votes
1 answer
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Can not access company website from within LAN domain

This is probably something simple but I'm having a brain fart trying to sort this out. I'm trying to mimic an existing physical location setup by a previous engineer. I've set up a new physical site [...
2 votes
1 answer
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AD Domain with matching TLD FQDN, forwarding DNS requests

I have the following scenario: A brand new ADDS domain from a single PDC+DNS. The FQDN of the domain matches our public website name (webname.com). The gateway dictates the PDC/DNS as the first DNS ...
0 votes
1 answer
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Should I look to rename .Local Windows AD Domain

So looking for some opinions on if this is a piece of work I should look to pursue. I started at my current company a year ago and they have an on-premise domain of contoso.local with a domain suffix ...
15 votes
3 answers
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Is it OK to use local. in an active directory domain name

I have read that it's not OK to use .local in a domain especially with Microsoft Windows servers. I have also read the Windows Active Directory naming best practices article on ServerFault which was ...
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1 answer
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Internal DNS, External DNS, ISP DNS [closed]

I am very new in networking and wanted to grab some quick knowledge about DNS server. Understand that DNS translates the IP address into human readable domain name. Can someone explain to me why do we ...
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1 answer
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Samba DC - NT_STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND

What am I doing wrong!!! Argh!!! I’m trying to get an Ubuntu 14.04 server running Samba as domain controller. Setup is a VM (10.0.0.1, samba.test.local) running a fresh & basic installation of ...
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1 answer
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FreeIPA access from internet if dc=domain,dc=local (freeipa.domain.local)

I installed FreeIPA, here is my etc/ipa/default.conf file [global] host = freeipa.domain.local basedn = dc=domain,dc=local realm = domain.LOCAL domain = domain.local xmlrpc_uri = https://freeipa....
2 votes
2 answers
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Root Domain Name cannot be found. Cannot "create a DNS delegation"

I am setting up and active directory on a vm with Windows Server 2012 R2. When prompted to add the root domain name, I am supposed to put 410Server2012.local. When I get to DNS option and try to ...
1 vote
1 answer
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Looking outside the internal DNS zone when using the same domain

So inside my network, we have a local DNS server (bind9). Let's say our internal zone is veridani.com, when I make local entries such as test.veridani.com it would work normally, and when I'm looking ...
1 vote
1 answer
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Enable Role as AD Certification Authority, what can go wrong?

I am about to install the role Active Directory Certification Authority on a Windows Server 2012 R2 that is already our Active Directory server. The reason is, that I want to enable LDAPS following ...
1 vote
0 answers
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Bind9 .local stub zone

I have a Windows 2012R2 Windows AD domain "example.local" that I need to to setup a stub (preferable) or a conditional forwarder but my named fails to locate or resolve a remote ".local&...
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2 answers
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Single *.company.com wildcard cert for RDS Deployment possible?

With a Remote Desktop Services deployment in a domain ad.company.com, I have RDG and RDSH installed on the same server, rd.ad.company.com. I can use a wildcard cert on *.company.com for access to the ...
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1 answer
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Resolving external address when Active Directory Domain ends in .com

Prior IT support named a customer's Windows 2016 AD domain example.com instead of example.local, as I've always done it. The customer has an external Apache web server hosting www.example.com. When a ...
8 votes
2 answers
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How to plan an Active Directory domain rename without it killing me?

It's looking more and more like I'll have to rename my Active Directory domain. There is a well-known process for making this change, including some very good answers on Server Fault already (like ...

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