How do I add a DNS record using Windows Server 2003

Hi marchopkins,

Open DNS console from Administrative Tools, right click your DNS domain, select Add host record..., leave name blank and enter an IP number.

HTH

Toni

I tried that.  Also, i do not see an   ADD HOST RECORD.  I see a New Host (A)...  which again, i tried.  When the record is complete it reads:

(Same as Parent folder)                 Host (A)          10.10.10.50

When i try to ping from my laptop I get the following:
C:\Users\marc>ping something.com

Pinging something.com [10.10.10.0] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 10.10.10..0:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

I have replaced the real IP and domain name with a dummy address just to illustrate.   It looks as though the ping of something.com without the www wants to use the Network Number rather than the address of  10.10.10.50

I didn't have that command available in Vista 64bit, but, i just rebooted and all is well.  Thanks, it worked.

I see the Cached sites on the server.  Is there a way to trace the sites to a certain host?  I would like to know what my people are doing during the day.

You are asking if DNS records an information which computer has asked for certain domain to be resolved? No, cache is dynamic and after TTL expires, all information is erased. You could however enable DNS debug logging for UDP traffic, incoming queries only on DNS server which would produce massive amount of entries in text file and impact server performance.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc759581.aspx

And of course because resolving an address does not mean that connection from client to resolved address was even made, using proxy with logging capabilities (such as ISA 2007) would be better choice. With ISA traffic can be traced to user accounts not only to IPs.

thanks.