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by james1706

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I have the DNS on Windows 2000 book (Matt Larson, Crickit Liu) and I am trying to set up a DNS server on a private test network.

I have followed the books step by step and at the end it says I should end up with an SOA like terminator.movie.edu.,administrator.movie.edu in the Data field.

All I end up with is terminator., administrator.

I have set the primary DNS to be the same as the system IP address. Do I need to add anything to the primary DNS suffix or elsewhere or have I just missed something altogether.

Any pointers would be appreciated.

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by quintar51

I think you answered your own question.

you're missing the ".movie.edu" part of it. This would be the Parent domain.

You do need to add this to your Primary DNS suffix for your computer, which can be done by going to control panel, system, network identification, properties, more.

type in movie.edu. Reboot. Your entries should show the fully qualified domain name now, if they don't, re-create the forward lookup zone and create the terminator and administrator records again.

email me at quintar_51@yahoo.com if you have any other questions, of if i confused you even more.

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