I have a network with a dsl internet connection from sbcglobal.net. I have 2 samba pdc's, a dhcp server, and a dns server. the dns part has kinda gotten over my head. What is the best solution for naming my domain? How do you handle multiple domains on one network. Each PDC has a different domain for logon purposes but should the highest level be the same? for instance:
internet: sbcglobal.net
PDC1: HLRD.howland.sbcglobal.net
PDC2: HSA.howland.sbcglobal.net
DNS: sblrd.sbcglobal.net
dhcpd: default domain -> howland.sbcglobal.net

Am I completely confused? What is the best solution?

Thanks,
Kevin

you would need an entry in your dns server for each level


im not sure this is legal stuff you are trying to do, becuse sbcglobal is already
a real domain name (unless you're making it unseeable on the internet).
I'm not sure how DNS setup goes, but I'd recommend not using the base
domain that your isp own. make your own:

like you could use this:

domain: localdomain
pdc1: pdc1.localdomain
pdc2: pdc2.localdomain
and u could add hosts:

host1.localdomain
host2.localdomain
and so on and so forth

i'd recommend against using a .com or a .net type extension because
you dont really own a "real" domain name, and it would help to illuminate
confusion (the .com and .net .edu are themselves domains and u havent
purchased a domain within either one of those)

i dont know the specifics about setting up a DNS server though, as i have
not yet tried it. The documentation still confuses me every time i tried to read it. lol

As far as dns is concerned, I really just wanted it to forward queries unless the record was already cached. I thought that would lessen the load for sbcglobal. But you could be right.

So I guess your saying put howland.com as the default domain internally(dhcpd, hosts) and just disregard the public ISP domain?

yea, but maybe you'd wanna just use howland, because howland.com
is also owned by someone (and they are running their server off of a mac)

check it out.

http://howland.com that's not you is it?

and oh, yea you can run a caching DNS server, i'd tell you how to set that up but i dont know how.

no, that's not me, and I have a caching nameserver running and it works- it's really speeded things up. But that's what started the confusion. I guess I'll just ignore sbcglobal.net and use howland for everything.