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by dreozz

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I have over 2000 domain names that my company has purchased
I am working with Win2k server. For the time being I do not want to integrate DNS into my existing internal network. Everything I seem to read on DNS is about integrating DNS into an existing NT Domain/Active Directory?. Is it possible to set up a DNS server to exclusively resolve Internet Domain Names to IP address?

I have registered to name servers with the SRS
Ns1.imaginary.com & NS2.imaginary.com
I would like to create records for the following names
www.oneofmany.com
www.oneofmany2.com
www.oneofmany3.com?..etc.

The name of the Win2k server I am working with is called TestServer and participates in a local Win NT4 Domain called Gem

I have DNS set up but have not yet configured it.
Question Under Forward Lookup Zone what zone would I create? Does it have to be named anything specific, or can I just arbitrarily choose a name?

For the 2000+ domain names I have, would I have to create individual zonesor would I just create a Host record under the Forward Lookup Zone?

Do I need to create a PTR for each of the domain names?

Any help would be greatly appreciated

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by kent.manley

You have a real issue on your hands, but I don't need to tell you that.

You can run DNS off your network, in fact, you'll probably want to run at least one and possibly one or more "slave" dns servers. (These should be in public IP address space,and preferably off separate network providers).

I don't know a lot about NT DNS, however, I do know BIND 8 on Unix. There, you have a named.conf file which lists each domain and the related zone file. The zone file must have an SOA record, and NS records for the domain. Other records are put there, too. These files are one per domain name. I typically name them something like domainname.forward. The named.conf file also holds information about the reverse zones, which you need in order to resolve IP addresses to domain/host names.

This question is really too big to answer adequately. I recommend you check out ask mr. dns at www.acmebw.com (acme byte and wire, a DNS consulting company). Also, buy DNS and BIND, by Cricket Liu and Paul Albitz (O'Reilly publishers).

That's the authoritative reference.

You're probably going to need a good Perl developer to manage all this, too.

Good luck!

Kent

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