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by yoohoo

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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 avswamy

while registering a domain with registrar is not enough u have to keep it in a public dns server, which serves internet domainsm, your dns server is an internal dns server which can't serve for internet dns traffic. if you want to keep a dns serverfor wwww againt you have to register it at registrar, where your dns server is registered then, if any one got a query about a domain which is parked in your dns server then the registrar directs then to your server and the details has to be copiedto all the dns servers across world.

i hope this will solve ur problem.

by avswamy

as per ur posting, you have already regitered a domain as myhome.com, so your domain is regitered at a registar, so he take care of your public traffic to that domain. Your secondary issue for you server at home is having a public ip so you can directly interact with it by ip address, if you want that one also resolve names into ipaddress then a redirector has to configured at domain registar then your server address is regitered as a name in a name server at your domain registar.

i hope this will help you.

by joshg

You will need to get a Static IP from your ISP and let them do secondary DNS for your Domain since you only have one PC. As for Primary DNS since you only have one machine create another alias for NS1.myhouse.com and use that. Again you will have to let the ISP know of these names in order for them to forward traffic. You will also have to register the NS1.MYHOUSE.COM with Internic as a Name Server in order for a domian to use it as a Pri or Sec DNS.

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