Re: setting up and configuring dns server on my windows 2000 box

From: Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP] (admin_at_nospam.WFTX.US)
Date: 07/20/04 

Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 10:12:51 -0500

In news:03f201c46e08$f00f3a20$a301280a@phx.gbl,
Kevin Cantin <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> posted a question
Then Kevin replied below:
> Hello,
>
> I have installed dns services and I have had no luck
> configuring the server. I can access the domains that I
> am hosting on the same machine via ip adddress but not via
> domain name. I currently have a win2k server and 3
> workstations. The way that I have things setup is that I
> have my cable modem plugged in to the uplink of my switch
> and then I have my router plugged in to the switch as well
> as a secondary nic for the internal lan on my win2k
> machine which I am using as a print server. Given all
> that, I just cannot seem to get things to resolve
> correctly. All of the domains are pointing to
> ns1.globeqc.com and ns2.globeqc.com I am not sure how
> mangeld my current configuration is bu i would really
> appreciate any kind of help at this point. Note, I am
> hosting 3 websits on this windows 2000 server. Please
> help... Thank you
>
> Best regards,
>
> Kevin J. Cantin
> kcantin@veionline.com

First you need to fix globeqc.com on ns1.globeqc.com, it answers lame so
apparently it has no zone, ns2.globeqc.com does not respond at all for any
queries. You need this zone set up properly so you have glue for your
nameservers, make sure there are no records with private IPs in any of your
public zones.
http://www.dnsreport.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=globeqc.com

I am able to query the DNS ns1.globeqc.com but it does not have a zone for
globeqc.com and queries the root for it:
opcode: Query, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 42
flags: qr aa; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

QUESTION SECTION:
globqc.com. IN ANY

AUTHORITY SECTION:
com. 172800 IN SOA a.gtld-servers.net.
nstld.verisign-grs.com. 1090255558 1800 900 604800 900

As for as making this into a domain controller, I wouldn't suggest that,
especially this machine, or the machine NS2.
You can make them members of a domain if you want to set up another machine
as a domain controller so you can have a centralized user database. Making
DCs out of your public DNS servers is going to create a major headache for
you. This is because of the way DCs must register there addresses in DNS,
also if you plan on creating an AD Domain you need to name its domain
something other than your public name. 

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