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by quintar51

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Hello,

I just setup a small home network, windows 2000, with one DNS server. let's call it DC1.

I installed Active Directory, with a domain of 'myhouse.com'. I use AD Integrated Zone. I also configured it as a root server, for mydomain.com, and I enabled forwarders, which include my ISP's DNS numbers.

I also created an Alias record for dc1.mydomain.com as www.mydomain.com.

I registered the domain name as www.myhouse.com. At the website where I registered my domain name, I can input name servers.

I don't know what name servers to list there. Should I list my dc1.mydomain.com as a name server? or should I list www.mydomain.com?
Or should it be one of my ISP's?
The way I have it set up now, is one name server is dc1.mydomain.com and the second one belongs to my ISP. However, when I ping www.mydomain.com, it can't find the host. If I ping dc1.mydomain.com, it comes back with a reply (209.x.x.x)

I want to be able to type in 'ping www.mydomain.com', anywhere in the world, and have my IP address (209.x.x.x)

I've read so many DNS articles on how the a name is being resolved, and I'm still confused when it comes to checking if i've set it up correctly.

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by joseph moore

Normally, you have your ISP make the MX and A records (and any other record types you need, except SOA which is on your DNS server), and they point downstream to your IP. So, I would have your ISP make the records to resolve www.mydomain.com to the IP of your web server.
Then, put your ISP's nameservers in the domain registration.

hope this helps

by quintar51

Hi Joseph, I rejected that answer because I need a little more detail. First, is there anyway to make this work as it is now?, I'm assuming if I was to call my ISP now and asked them to add my A records, they'd charge me extra.

by saihib

Answer 1 is correct. You need DNS servers out on the Internet to be pointed to you. If you look in the cache.dns file you'll find a list of the root name servers for the Internet. Ideally these would be where you want your records registered. I'm also pretty certain that what you're trying to do is a violation of your ISP's service agreement.

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