Hmm did you have it configured to with Forwarders to whatever other DNS server?
If you select View / Advanced you'll be able to see the Cache which will contain everything people have been asking to go to.
Chris
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I want to set up a DNS server on our network to handle ALL internet lookups
Hello. At some point in the past I had set up a windows 2000 server to be a DNS server for us. I had set it so that if it did not know the ip address of the site it went to another DNS server to get it and it updated its own information. I did this because we had several employees surfing to specific sites that they were not allowed to go to, and I was able to see the DNS records on the 2000 server and know what sites the employees were going to, and if I desired I could update the record on the server to point that URL to a different site hosted on our server.
We now have 2003 servers here and I was trying to set one up to DNS like the old 2000 server had, but the setup looks totally different to me, or I am just not remembering what I did originally since it has been many years.
Could someone please walk me through the DNS setup on 2003 to do this?
Thank you.
David
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Chris,
I did not leave it on the machine. I could not figure out what a forward is exactly. I do not want to allow the user to forward off to another DNS is our DNS does not have the information. Is that what a forward does?
Also, we are on a larger network here, an active directory network. I just want this DNS to run on the server in this department and I will manually set the computers here to use it as the DNS server and not the one assigned in the DHCP of the big network. Can that be done?
CHris, So I should just set up the DNS with forwarding? ALso on the early part of the wizard it wanted to know what kind of DNS I wanted and had 3 choices. SOmething like a small network, big network and something else. What do I want there? We are a small department (about 35 ppl), so I assume small?
Chris,
It is 2003 standard. I use the "Manage your server" wizard to tell it to add the DNS to the server. I am doing it right now so I can tell you what it is asking me.
It wants to know if I want to:
"Create a forward lookup zone " or "Create forward and reverse lookup zones " or "Configure root hints only".
Should I make a forward lookup zone only?
Cached Lookups. Is this what you had before? It's not the easiest format to browse...
Forward Lookup Zones contains all the DNS zones you've configured, typically your AD Domain Name.
Reverse Lookup Zones contains zones used to map IP addresses back to names. So I'd expect something like "1.168.192.in-addr.arpa" in there (which will change to "192.168.1.x Subnet" if you de-select View / Advanced.
Chris
Chris,
Okay, it sort of works... I set a new Vista machine here to use the new DNS. When I try to surf anywhere it hangs for a hong time and then timesout. If I refresh it does that again. The next refresh will bring up the site and then I see it in the cached lookups on the server (plus others). Why does it time out like that so many times? What can I do to stop that?
Chris,
Okay, I have a DNS installed now with nothing in it. I then highligght the "forward loookup zones" folder and go to the action menu and click "new zone". I hit next and then have to say if this is a "Primary zone", "Secondary zone" or "stub zone". I assume primary? I pick that and now must pick a zone name. I do not want the server to be authoritative to any part of this place, so I make up a name "DNSWatcher" and hit next. I tell it to not allow dynamic updates and hit next then finish. But I still see no please to tell the server the ip address of the 2 forwarding ddnss servers to use. Where do I put that?
What other DNS servers do you have? Which ones host the zone for Active Directory? We must ensure that clients can resolve names there otherwise you'll run into lots of problems.
Forwarders, if you need to set them can be found by opening the DNS Console, right clicking on the server and selecting Properties. There's a tab for Forwarders, it'll have a box in there with "all other dns domains" in it (or something like that). Are there any IP addresses listed if you select that?
Chris
Chris,
We are a pretty big organization (ijn all) and I am doing this for but a small department. I do not manage anything in Active directory. The main DNS servers here for the centralized IT is all I want to forward to if our server does not know the ip address. Our departmetn actually has servers in the DNS of the main business and I do not want to have this DNS server handle them. I only want it to give people the IP of where to go in this department. Does this make sense?
Yep, it does. So you want to add the IP address of the central DNS server(s) to the Forwarders list on your own server (while the all other dns domains option is selected under the Forwarders tab).
Add them in, then make sure you can run this from your own DNS server:
nslookup yourdomain.com 1.2.3.4
Where you should replace yourdomain.com with the proper domain name and 1.2.3.4 with the IP address of the central server.
Chris
Hi Chris,
This is just not working.
Say the domain here is state.gov (for the whole state). Our domain is xyz.state.gov. We have a website that the dns run by state.gov points to for the world. It would be at xyz.state.gov. We also have an intranet site for our employees. It is at intranet.xyz.state.gov. The main state intranet is simply "intranet" (that is what we enter in a browser to get to it).
My setup works for all non-state.gov domains. It fails on xyz.state.gov, intranet.xyz.state.gov and just intranet.
What should my zone be?
Thanks,
David
Chris,
Okay, I removed the zone. That gets me into most of the domains on the network I know of. But I still cannot get to intranet.xyz.state.gov or intranet.
However, if I change "intranet" to intranet.state.gov I get to the top level intranet site.
How can I now just make a DNS entry to "intranet" and "intranet.xyz.state.gov" in the DNS server? This will route me to the 2 sites that do not seem to work and are about the most important.
Hi Chris,
Okay, I am giving up. It is not worth the time I am putting in to this right now. Really a time issue not frustration. I have 30 new machines waitint to roll out and I cnanot keep them on this any longer. :( For all your time and help I'll award the points. Thanks.
I will get back to this though and continue to try after I have the machines given to the employees. I'll get it if it kills me. :)
David
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by: aerapsPosted on 2009-08-17 at 08:30:20ID: 25115411
http://support.microsoft.c
above is the complete document which will guide you in setting up a DNS server on your 2003 box.
http://support.microsoft.c