If I have a forwarder in DNS to acmetrading.com. We have just done a company name change from acme energy partners to acmetrading.com. the director wants me to add a DNS entry for glide.acmetrading.com into DNS. Since there is a forwarder for acmetrading.com already it won't let me add it. Is there a way to work around this or will I be forced to remove the forwarder. Thank you, Leto the just

In the forwarders zone, you only add alternative DNS servers in the Internet. Your DNS server will forward requests, the can not be resolved locally. If glide.acmetrading.com is an internal subdomain, you simply have to add an A record and the and an PTR record in the reverse lookup zone.

The problem is that it is not an internal DNS zone and when I try to add that zone, I get the error iI mentioned. Thank you, Leto the just

You need Access to that DNS server so that you can put the HOST (A) in. They either have to give you access or they have to put the record in for you. You need to talk to who ever is hosting the DNS server. Personally, I would have never set it up that way. I would have an internal DNS server that I could control. Putting your DNS in other people hands is dangerous. You might want to reconsider your network layout.

The entries has to be made on the public dns server. If your dns server is not a public dns server, but an internal, you have to contact your ISP, where you registered your domain name, to add the entries mentioned above.

I am not worried about the public DNS record that has already been changed. I just wanted to know if there was some way to have internal traffic from one address respond to another internal address. Thank you, Leto the just