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by asdfoui

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Hi,

I am trying to set up a name server for my domain purchrased from godaddy.com. I am running w2k3 server and its dns server.

I am not asking for how to assign ips to my clients in the network... that works great!

Could you please explain how to set up the zones required must be set up and how the hosts etc... have to look like.

I know that i could use their dns service, but i want to know how to do it myself.

Thanks!!

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by kron

Under the "Forward Zone" you should create a primary zone that reflects your registered domain name, i.e. - "mydomain.com". Under that zone two records should be automatically entered your SOA and the Name Server record. You then should create a reverse Primary zone that reflects your LAN subnet, i.e. - 192.168.1.X.

In your primary forward zone create a Host record or "A" record that points to DNS IP (server's IP) and check the option to create a reverse pointer for that record

If you are running mail servers under the same domain - i.e. "mail.mydomain.com" then create a MX record that points to "mail.mydomain.com". If your mail server has an IP other than you server then create a HOST record for that IP that points to the server and then create the MX record.

if you have aliases for your domain such as www.mydomain.com then create CNAME records that points to your server.

by adembo

Is this your only server? If so, then having the one primary DNS server is fine, but if you have multiple servers, you should use Active Directory Integrated DNS zones. You can convert your primary to active directory integrated. This is done for the sharing of all DNS records with all your servers.

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