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by gregory.dvorkin

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I need to install DNS server to test some applications that require domain name for the sever to be interen during installation or setup. It does not matter if it is Linux or Windows 2000, I just need to be able to have internal DNS server that would allow domain name definitions like mail.mycompany. DNS servers wizards usually try to help me to connect my server to the world, but I just need to build "my own world" withing the office network for test puposes.
Anybody can suggest, how can I do that?

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by julie.schneider

Set up a w2k DNS server for your mail.mycompany domain as you would for any other, but you'll need to change the Root Hints entry in W2k DNS properties to point to the DNS server itself instead of the 11 Internet Root Name Servers.

I haven't used unix BIND lately, but there's either a root.hints file or db.cache that does the same thing.

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