DNS When adding Windows client to ActiveDirectory

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[icekold0]

Dear all!

I've had a  of years experience with EFW (Community version) and so far am extremely pleased with the results and all satisfied customers!

I have recently re-organised a small business and EFW provides firewall, office proxy and DHCP... all working perfectly on the firewall side.

However, whenever I attempt to join a new computer to the existing Active Directory I always have to ensure I put the DC's IP address into the client's DNS settings for a successful domain join...

I receive an error message similar to this one (geekswithblogs.net/images/geekswithblogs_net/technetbytes/DNS_ADDC/Windows%20Server%202008%20R2%20x64-2011-10-09-09-04-38.png)

Following the exact same instructions where the above image came from actually is what I use to resolve the problem. (geekswithblogs.net/technetbytes/archive/2011/10/09/147233.aspx)

The question is, am I now forever going to be in this situation when using EFW or can EFW push/offer any settings so that I do not need to keep changing the client DNS settings?

Thank you!!!

[robert]

Just click on the top Proxy menu, then the left DNS menu, then the DNS routing tab (this UI sucks).

Click the "Add new custom nameserver for a domain" link.

Enter "saqibullah.com" for the domain and the domain controller's ip address.

Then EFW will forward any DNS requests for saqibullah.com to that machine.