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by pricepd 1 view

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I am running a Win2K private network behind a Winroute pro firewall/email/dns/dhcp server. I want to host my own internet DNS so that I don't have to pay a monthly fee to have someonelse host my DNS for mail only (we don't have a web page).

How difficult is it to set this up? And is there a resource for configuring this? One other question is do I need to reserve the domain names of ns.mydomain.com and ns2.mydomain.com as well as just mydomain.com?

Thanks in advance for you help.

Preston

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by curlergirl

There is no real trick to setting this up if you understand setting up DNS. Since Win2K has dynamic DNS, it is even easier. You will need to reserve a domain name and have at lease one static public IP address - which you can probably obtain from your ISP for a nominal fee. The other names you refer to - ns.mydomain.com and ns2.mydomain.com - are not registered - these are the name(s) of the DNS server(s) that are authoritative for your domain. I believe InterNIC requires you to specify twonames - but you can have two different names on one server if you like - you can specify them to be whatever you want. The convention is simply to use "ns" or "ns1", "ns2", etc., as the server name to indicate that it's a name server. One good resource I've used for this is Mark Minasi's Mastering Windows 2000 Server - it has some very good stuff on DNS for newbies. You need to be concerned about security, though, if you're going to host your own DNS server. Remember, it's completely exposed unless you have a firewall or proxy server. Hope this helps!

by pricepd

Thanks, I have Mark Minasi's book but hadn't looked at it, and it was very infromative.

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