Re: DNS server setup questions


"Sally Mathews" <SallyMathews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Change domain name to valley.local

That's tough to do -- unless your entire forest is in Win2003 Forest
Functional Level, and even then it is tedious.

OK, so I need to leave it as it is even though it isn't preferred, because
it is just too tedious to change it at this point.

It probably IS "preferred" but is tedious and may not be practical to do
right now.

Yes -- technically the "Internal DNS Server 'set'" but you only have the
one DNS server for now -- if this is a production domain you will
eventually
want 2 DCs, both GCs, both AD Integrated DNS, and all stations using
BOTH of them for DNS.

THis is a small organization, and a simple file server. It will be a very
long time before they do anything else.

Just be aware that if you lose the ONLY DC then you lose the ENTIRE
domain. Backups of SYSTEM STATE become critical with a single DC.


If they are going to have those "Service definitions" or "mappings" they
need
to STAY on the same address to keep these from changing on every reboot
etc -- you can give the same addresses by MANUALLY setting them on
the workstation, or by using RESERVATIONS on the DHCP server.

On my DHCP settings I just set a scope that I wanted my workstations to
pick
up IPs out of. I set my printers and server outside of the scope so their
addresses wouldn't be handed out. Should i instead set reservations for
each
workstation or printer?

I do this for printers (since they have to be hard coded IPs to setup the
print
ports.

I really don't want to manually set addresses on
workstations but certainly can if needed.

I don't do it for (most) workstations and even some servers.

It must be done for any DHCP clients which must remain on a fixed address.

Using DHCP reservation or manually setting it on the NIC->IP properties
is ALMOST a matter of style, but I mentioned earlier there are still some
advantages for setting reservations instead of manual NIC properties.

--
Herb Martin, MCSE, MVP
http://www.LearnQuick.Com
(use 512 phone number on web site)


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