DNS lookup on one domain with DNS for a domain without an internal DNS server

[Mark Damrose]

"Martin Leggatt" <mleggatt at amsuk.com> wrote in message
news:abqnpj$17vc$1 at isrv4.isc.org...
>
> All,
>
> Have been reading the list for some time and found it useful, now have a
> question.  The company I work for has two offices, one in the U.S. and on
in
> the UK.  I work in the UK and we host our own DNS internally and
externally
> with our ISP as secondary DNS.  Our U.S office however does not have
> internal DNS, so whenever we try to access machines over there by host
name
> they are not accessible and therefore we have to know the hosts IP address
> (They uses WINS internally).  We have several machines that we access over
> there and currently have to do it via IP address.  I want to avoid using
> LMHOST files on all the workstations (administration overhead) and I
cannot
> seem to convince the U.S. to install an internal DNS server.
>
> My question is this, can I put entries in our DNS files in the u.k so that
> when we attempt to access the U.S office machines by host name, it will
> return the IP address, meaning we can use host names as opposed to IP
> addresses.  For information they are on a different subnet and domain.

Yes - so long as they are static and/or the U.S. are willing to tell you
when the address changes.

>
> Any advice would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Martin
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